Gumstix now usable

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Dan wrote:

wireless  Yes, Infineon Bluetooth? Module on btuart ROK104001    power management circuitry on board  UART (3), I2C, USB Client, NSSP, PWM (2), AC97, LCD Controller, JTAG

They got Bluetooth, sound and a LCD-controller now so it´s actually usable.

Now who are going to make an Xscale-port of AROS? :-)

How compatible is the XScale with the ARM?

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tangletown wrote:
You two are obsessed!

It's the future dude!!!

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If it were me, I'd probably base a new Amiga on this, the Viper Motherboard.

I'd run AROS and UAE on it, and market it as a propper low cost, low power, low form factor system!

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I think you have confused the XScale with the StrongARM... The XScale has very good FP poerformance, MP3 and DivX seem to run fine on the 400Mhz version. The Xscale even has some DSP instructions in there :-)

My point is, that if you wanted to make a new Amiga you would have to sell it on the original strengths of the amiga brand, Cheap, small and versitile... not something which a PPC board with standard PC components is able to provide.

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If you wanted another "new" and "cheap" Amiga based around something like an Xscale, you'd have to load the motherboard with other DSPs and processors to take away the load from the main CPU, you'd need a graphics processor, sound processor and maybe a DSP for other odds and sods ... in the end it's cheaper to go for a general purpose CPU and use cheaper less intelligent graphics processors etc ... provided you can do the volume .. which is where the Pegasos and Amiga1 are having problems, not enough users means higher prices.

Yeah, that was my thinking.

Lots of XScales, DSPs and microcontrolers + an industry standard GPU :-)

It would be far more interesting as a hobby machine than what we have now.