[rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts

Kevin Loch kloch at gurunet.net
Sun Jan 20 16:59:18 CST 2002


Ok, so the DSP has more than 4 MIPS :)

KL

Chris Terwilliger wrote:
> 
> Digital.  Like most modern phones, it is a custom platform with an
> application processor and a DSP.  The DSP does all the encode/decode.
> 
> Chris
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Loch" <kloch at gurunet.net>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 4:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: [SunHELP] Solaris 9, First thoughts
> 
> > Is this for analog phones?  Wouldn't you need more than 4 mips to
> encode/decode
> >
> > digital?
> >
> > KL
> >
> > Chris Terwilliger wrote:
> >
> > > > > The problem there is you'll need to give the programmers a
> super-fast
> > > > > cross-compile machine on which they can only build, never run and
> test,
> > > > > their programs (and of course at the same time make it easy for them
> to
> > > > > build on the fast machine, and test on the slow machine).
> > >
> > > You should see how we write software for cell phones...
> > > We use a build cluster of HP-UX boxes, gcc, and source in Clearcase.
> > > Then we download an image to our little embedded 4 MIP device over a
> 115K
> > > serial link.
> > > Builds take 15 - 60 minutes depending on the load, great fun...
> > >
> > > Chris
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