xscale port of fedora core 2

[Russell Coker]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:33, Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh at wantstofly.org> wrote:
> Some weeks ago, I started porting Fedora Core 2 to the Intel IXP2400,
> which is basically a 600MHz big-endian xscale (ARM) core.  Right now
> I have ~550 out of ~950 packages building and seemingly in good order.
> (I have not yet attempted to build openoffice and such.)

Is anyone making machines for general-purpose use based on the IXP2400 core?  
Or is it just for routers?

> I would like to start submitting the (surprisingly small number of)
> needed patches so far back into Fedora, perhaps shifting my efforts
> towards FC3.  What do people here think about such an effort?

Sounds good.  Any time you port to a new architecture you are likely to shake 
out bugs that aren't obvious on i386.  I've found heaps of bugs by porting 
code to other CPUs.

Also there's a good chance that bugs you fix for ARM may also impact IA64.

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