[fpc-devel] NetBSD / PPC (Xillinx 405)

[Helmut Hartl]

ik wrote:
> I'm not sure what you are looking for.
> I started binding a osip to FPC but i didn't had the time (and will)
> to finish the binding. 

Sorry, i will clarify what i want to do.
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My firm is writing software for telco-carriers.
VoIP Solutions, billing solutions, firmware etc.
We traditionally programmed in delphi, fpc, c and c++.
I have a carrier grade sip/rtp stack written in fpc
for linux and windows. Lib osip is nice but has neither the
features nor the performance needed here.

Now i have to answer a tender (rfq/rfi). If i win my
team and i have to port the applications to an embedded box. 
(powerpc/netbsd embedded system)

I am not willing to port our work to c++.
(We are currently try to kill all old c firmware projects as
object pascal / fpc gives us a clear market advantage through
cut down turnaround times and less error prone code.)

If i win the tender our sip stack will maybe run around 100.000 
Voip/Gateway/CSTA boxes. They have to be supported with a timeframe
for around 5-8 years.

So my questions are in detail:

What is the state of a netbsd-powerpc port ?
What is done ? What has to be done ?

If we can use fpc for development my firm can support the
fpc project by supporting a/the netbsd-powerpc port.
Also we plan to release some basic datastructures libraries
into public domain.

Thank you, helmut

> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Helmut Hartl
> <helmut.hartl at firmos.at> wrote: 
>> Hi to all,
>> 
>> I want to do some programming for a embedded system:
>> (Port our SIP/RTP Stack to some embedded system)
>> 
>> System is:
>> ----
>> NetBSD 3.0  #1570: Tue Aug 15 15:08:31 CEST 2006 TG Board total
>> memory = 65536 KB avail memory = 46160 KB plb0 (root) cpu0 at plb0:
>> 200MHz 405EP (Revision 9.80) ----
>> 
>> This is a VoIP Box running under NetBSD with a PPC Architecture.
>> (ibm405 core embedded in Xilinx Virtex {2-Pro, 4 FX} series FPGA)
>> 
>> Can you give me some directions ?
>> 
>> Our sip stack is commercial/closed source at the moment, but if i win
>> the project, i can do some porting of libraries/targets if necessary
>> and give that work back of course ...
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> 
>>  helmut