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[Mark Blackman]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:

> On 1/31/2012 9:22 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/31/2012 3:56 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
>>>> Anyone still working on the FreeBSD port for Tilera? Perhaps 2011
>>>> was very productive but very stealthy!
>>>
>>> Let's hope so - but I haven't heard anything about it either. :-)
>>
>> Hmm, so Tilera isn't pursuing this? The messages from 2010 suggested
>> Tilera engineers were doing something, but perhaps they were looking
>> for more FreeBSD involvement.
>
> My understanding (from a purely engineering perspective) is that we are
> prepared to support a FreeBSD port, but we are not currently planning to
> drive the port ourselves.

Ok, fair enough. I wonder if the foundation would be prepared to fund 
dedicated effort on porting. I've only just belatedly appreciated how much
more useful Tilera's application targets (64-bit + FP performance) are
compared to ARM.

- Mark