what do you do with YDL?

[Jim Robinson]

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What I mean is that the cpu doesn't need a huge heat sink with a huge fan on top
of it. When I was looking for boards, I could only find cpu cards that took up 2
vme slots because of cooling. The PPC cards took up only 1 slot and didn't need
the added cooling. It just looks like the PPC is a better chip when it come to
power consumption and heat.. That's all.....
It is only my 2 cents....

Jim


Steve wrote:

> Do you mean that the PPC wastes more power and creates more heat vs. an x86
> or vice versa?
>
> - Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Jim Robinson
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:59 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: what do you do with YDL?
>
> Hi,
>
> > 1) What do you use YDL (or Linux) for?
>
> -We are using YDL 2.1 on (8) Synergy's VCMD VME PPC boards for Internal
> Research and Development projects with YDL 2.3 on (2) Power Mac's for
> development.
> -I have had Very good luck with YDL to the point that I went and got an IMac
> for home and scraped RedHat 8.0 on my X86 box.
>
> > 2) Is there anything you can do in x86 linux (eg. Red Hat on a PC) that
> >    you cannot do on PowerPC?
>
> This should really be what can't you do with x86 linux that you are doing
> with your PPC linux, but as for your question,
>
> - Nothing that can't be recompiled, this is mostly a time and ease of
> install issue.
> - Not All PMC drivers are ported to the PPC platform (to be expected tho)
> and so far all of the companies that we are working with have done an
> excellent job of supporting us.
> - YDL 2.X doesn't come with ADA, and you have to upgrade your gcc and dev
> tools to get it.... hummm Howto???
> - Create lots of heat and waste power... ;-)
>
> > 3) What would you like to see howtos,guides and articles cover?
>
> I haven't found anything yet that a Howto hasn't covered.
>
> My 2 cents,
> James Robinson
>
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