alternate h/w for devel use?

[imm]

> On 3 Dec 2007, at 15:58, Jordan Crouse wrote:
>> On 02/12/07 13:58 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
>>> On 02/12/2007, at 1:28 AM, imm wrote:
>>>> I just wondered if anyone who knows the xo hardware well, would be
>>>> able to express an opinion as to whether this might be an  
>>>> option, for
>>>> those of us outside the G1G1 geographical area, to do a little
>>>> software development of our own, without eating in to the supply of
>>>> developer machines?
>>>
>>> The differences between the linutop and the xo are considerable,
>>> especially in relation to the display controller (DCON), but also in
>>> terms of power management, keyboard, e-book position sensing, and so
>>> on.  The memory is likely to be different type, therefore bandwidth.
>>> There is no internal jffs2 NAND flash.
>>
>> To be fair, he didn't actually ask for any of those things.  The  
>> original
>> poster was more interested in software performance then anything -  
>> and
>> in that regard, the Linutop is very similar to the MP hardware (it  
>> even
>> uses LinuxBIOS, which isn't OFW, granted, but its not propriatary  
>> BIOS
>> evilness either).
>>
>> I think that would be great to have some version of the Sugar code  
>> that
>> runs on other Geode platforms that are easier to get worldwide.   
>> Sure,
>> you're not going to get the DCON or other custom XO hardware, but you
>> will get pretty close - at least close enough to do reasonable work.
>
> Thanks for the input, guys.
>
> As Jordan identified, I was pitching more towards getting some  
> hardware that has performance in the same ballpark as the XO (I  
> realise it couldn't "be" an XO).
> I was trying to get a feel for how the code runs. I suspect the  
> machines I have are too powerful to be realistic when running sugar- 
> jhbuild, and maybe not powerful enough when running under emulation...
> Do we think the graphics performance of these boxes going to be  
> similar to the XO, for example, that sort of thing?
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ian