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Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono)Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono)Posted May 11, 2009 19:26 UTC (Mon) by alvieboy (subscriber, #51617)In reply to: Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono) by pabs Parent article: Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono)
Actually this seems to follow the same philosophy as FSO as you said: D-bus based approach, and nothing more than a framework. All higher-level stuff vendor-dependant.
I wonder why they don't support FSO instead. And I can't see how Intel fits in at this point - StrongARM seems to be "dead" and other manufacturers have much more attractive CPUs (price and performance wise).
Or maybe Intel has some new embedded CPU's that I am not aware of.
So no more Windows Mobile, nor Symbian ? Strikes me as odd too. Intel seems to be drifting away from Microsoft lately. But something tells me not to believe it.
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Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono) Posted May 11, 2009 20:18 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
I donno. StrongArm is probably the most convient platform for them to do development with. If it's actually Intel putting work into it then they probably have toolchains and development machines setup for other purposes already. Just pull them out of storage and there you go.
Otherwise I expect that they are coded to be portable and all that, seeing how Intel is more and more interested in x86 on handhelds and whatnot.
Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono) Posted May 12, 2009 2:06 UTC (Tue) by laf0rge (subscriber, #6469) [Link]
Intel is preparing for the x86 based SoCs that we'll see in the years to come. You'd be surprised how much they'll be pushing in the direction of getting their foot into the mobile market, given the quantities in it.
Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono) Posted May 12, 2009 12:09 UTC (Tue) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
'StrongARM seems to be "dead"'
Intel sold strongarm (renamed XScale) to Marvell many years ago.
Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project (oFono) Posted May 12, 2009 12:51 UTC (Tue) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]
> maybe Intel has some new embedded CPU's that I am not aware of
I am told that Intel sales reps are trying to sell Atom to people who are currently using XScales. This is not really a "drop-in replacement", to say the least.
Of course a lot of the XScale technology went to Marvel, who seem to be doing more with it that I had expected (though they don't seem to get much publicity). What I'm not seeing yet is a replacement for the XScale chips with PCI, or some alternative way to get a high-bandwidth connection between a processor and an FPGA; the choice seems to be e.g. PCIe, which is hard to do at the FPGA end, or some sort of slow flash memory bus.
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