[9fans] Inferno on XMOS

[Shane Morris <edgecomberts@gmail.com>]

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Hello 9fans,

Has anyone considered running Inferno on an XMOS system? Their StartKIT is
US$15 (plus US$30 P&P to Australia, which is a bugbear, otherwise I'd get
one), and an 8Mbyte SDRAM "slice" (their name for an expansion card) is
US$40. I seem to remember seeing Inferno live natively in as low as 2Mbyte
of RAM. Additionally, the StartKIT provides an RPi 26 pin header for
expansion cards developed for the RPi.

>From what I understand, FreeRTOS has been ported, and modules exist for
SPI, UART, I2C, etc. There is also in interboard link port next to the RPi
alike port on the StartKIT so one could conceivably have IEEE1588 ethernet
on one board (with ethernet slice), and Inferno running on the other board
with 8Mbyte of RAM. Or am I barking up the wrong tree here?

I have a need for a controller (or two, linked together as the case may
have you) that talks ethernet, talks TTL serial, talks SPI, and talks I2C
over an RPi alike port. I'd like it to be a hard, real time system, and the
XMOS chips are quite deterministic in that regard.

Anyway, these are all just thoughts, as mentioned, I could be full of it,
I'm not making any guarantees.

Thanks all!

Shane.

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