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[Chris Metcalf]

On 1/31/2012 9:39 AM, Mark Blackman wrote:
> 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.

Indeed :-)

Some work was going on at CMU under David Eckhardt, but I'm not sure how
much progress they made.

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com