From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:44:09 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] BR + CT-NG integration In-Reply-To: <87a5b0800912220437t21fad1e9v7d8b1e15b6ca7981@mail.gmail.com> References: <200912212351.11487.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> <4B30BC14.3050207@zacarias.com.ar> <87a5b0800912220437t21fad1e9v7d8b1e15b6ca7981@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4B30BF19.7030302@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Will Newton wrote: > I don't know what AXIS internal plans are, but it would appear by "not > available publically", they mean they are getting out of the chip > business (selling ETRAX SoCs) and becoming a pure IP supplier. If > that's the case you will still see CRIS architecture chips but from > other vendors. Very unlikely since CRIS is a propietary architecture from Axis which is probably covered by some patents. On a limb i'm betting they decided that maintaining their own architecture wasn't worth the effort and they'll be switching to something more generally-available like ARM or MIPS. Remember they're mostly a netcam company, not a silicon or IP one. Their ARTPEC chips (the engine behind their cams) were never sold, they were for internal consumption. Acme systems (www.acmesystems.it) which sold a range of products based on their Etrax SoCs completely switched to ARM if that's any indication.