Re: Re: MISC-d Digest V98 #28
- To: garyl@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Re: MISC-d Digest V98 #28
- From: dcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dan C. Rinnert)
- Date: 17 Jul 1998 14:42:03 GMT
- Cc: MISC
- Organization: Canville Virtual Village
- Reply-To: dcr@xxxxxxxxxxxx
garyl@nvmedia.com,World writes:
> I would like to get some feedback from this group on a subject that
>interests me at the moment. I would like to see F21's be used in a
>multiprocessor version of a multitasking operating system. Although
>initially this would seem harder to do than the current open source
>system I consider as the model - the Linux system on an X86 single
>processor - it seems that by placing system tasks in separate F21's
>would result in a more modular high level design.
That's an interest I've had for some time as well. In my spare time, I am
attempting to write an operating system. But, I've had setbacks because I
can't decide which processor to design around initially, and so I keep
switching from PowerPC to x86 to PowerPC to x86... I would really be
interested in getting some F21's or similar MISC chip and try to build a
system either using all F21's, or using a PowerPC core, with F21's handling
various functions. Something where the PowerPC would be "master control" and
handle the delegation of tasks to different F21's. The way I would kind of
like to see it is to be able to add and remove MISC chips at will, as easily
as adding and removing RAM.
Dan