WSJ (as pertains to AMD Geode vs Intel)

[Brian Carnes]

In the WSJ article, I read:

"Intel and the One Laptop project, he says, have agreed to work together
to design by early January a new 'Intel-based' One Laptop device."


Can someone more plugged into what's going on let me know what this means
in terms of the AMD Geode in the XO?

I'm guessing nothing (mass production has started...).

What is known about a possible XO (rev 2) platform based on Intel?

Should any efforts going towards Geode optimization be diverted to other
areas of development which would benefit the project more?

Between this, and all the talk about getting a full Sugar environment on
the EEE and Classmate and in VMware/QEMU distributions, makes me wonder
where speedups from Geode-targeting on the XO hardware should fit into
everything.

If the writing on the wall is to produce an image that will run in all
these environments, it needs to avoid locking itself to the Geode.

Then again, if we tolerate the headache of maintaining a separate image
for the XO, and due to such tuning/targeting it runs *better* there than
on the other machines, that breathes more life into the XO hardware...

  - Brian