xscale port of fedora core 2
Eli Carter
eli.carter at inet.com
Tue Aug 10 20:44:04 UTC 2004
Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:38:21PM -0400, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
>
>
>>>[ For those not in the know: the IXP2400 is basically just an xscale
>>> (which is Intel's version of ARM) processor, with some extra on-chip
>>> processing logic for fast network processing. The chip itself has
>>> an integrated memory controller, 64b/66MHz PCI unit, 4Gbps SPI-3 bus,
>>> and 8 on-chip processors which have a very simple instruction set
>>> designed to do network-related things such as switching, routing,
>>> firewalling, etc. It can do full wire speed 4xGbps processing, and
>>> its bigger brother, the IXP2800, does full wire speed 10xGbps. ]
>>
>> So how close is this processor to the older StrongArm processor used
>>in the now orphaned Netwinder?
>
>
> I don't think xscale code runs on the strongarm.
>
> I'm not sure if strongarm code runs on the xscale -- can you send
> me a statically linked hello world binary to find out? (Is the
> strongarm mixed endian like the xscale?)
ARM is to XScale as 486 is to Pentium. (Strong)ARM code runs on XScale
just fine.
I think ARM is typically LE, but it may be possible to run BE, I don't
remember off the top of my head. I believe the Zaurus is LE.
HTH,
Eli
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