Marvell 88W8388 (OLPC Laptop - an open source substandard ?)

Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Wed Jan 10 00:03:12 EST 2007


Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>  - Is there any public developer documentation for the 88W8388?

Not sure, but haven't seen any.

>  - Did anyone build a cross GCC toolchain for the ARM9e embedded
>    processor?  Hopefully, a regular arm-elf toolchain with newlib
>    would suffice.

Andres and I will work on this post-B2.

>  - Is there any existing code that could be leveraged as a starting
>    point?

We'll have the existing ThreadX code to work from, yes.

> Judging from the API, it's just a naive cooperative scheduler and
> a couple of synchrononization primitives.

That was Andres' and my impression, as well.

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