[oe] What distro for ixp425

[Øyvind Repvik]

Nguyen Kien wrote:
> My group is developing a smart router with Intel IXP425 XScale and I use openembedded to building a small linux system for our product. 
> In openembedded distro conf directory, there are many distros, which distro is best for me?
> 
> I built debianslug for my nslu2 ( intel ixp4xx ) device, run ok. Is it the best choice, if i built debianslug for my product.

So far, the debianslug distro isn't the best choice for the ixp4xx, 
since debianslug runs LE, and has ~30% lower network performance than 
OpenSlug, which is BE.

> Thanks for your ideas!

It'd be nice if any patches needed to run on your board made it into the 
nslu2-linux kernel repo (or even better, mainstream).

>  Hardware configuration   CPU  533 MHz  IXP425 - XScale architecture, ARM core   RAM  128 to 256 MB  SDRAM operating at 133 MHz   
 >Primary storage  128 Mbit  Parallel flash   Secondary storage  512 MB 
  Optional NAND flash   LAN interface  01 Ethernet  10/100 mbps
 >WAN interface  04 Ethernet  10/100 mbps   General purpose interface 
01 USB  USB v1.1 - may attaches additional storage
>Peripheral bus  01 PCI  Mini PCI 33MHz   Console interface  01 RS-232  115200 8N1   
 >Display  5x7 led + various leds  5x7 3 color led panel   Peripheral 
01 Microcontroller  8 bit AVR   Miscellaneous  ICE JTAG, 8bit DIP 
switch, Battery backed RTC
> http://ftd.routeskeeper.com

Please use a mail client that wraps. The hardware configuration ends up 
as one incredibly long line which is annoying to read.

Øyvind Repvik
SlugOS package manager