Yes, Yamaha have ported something very similar to ARM before:
The RS7000 shared the code-base of the original Motif - back then they both used Hitachi 32 bit CPUs running ITRON RTOS. When the Motif XS came out that code-base was ported to a Toshiba TX4939 MIPS RISC using MontaVista Linux.
Then another big code refactoring occurred when the above MIPS code was ported to a TI ARM chip on the Montage, but still using MontaVista Linux.
(Porting MIPS to ARM involves rewriting a lot of drivers - then again, so does moving from Linux kernel 3.x to 5.x)
I suspect the latter refactoring to ARM was the biggest job because the Montage was such a departure from the classic Motif work flow and frankly the UI felt so barren and kind of unpolished until the Montage M improved on it.
It also feels like the hardware heyday is long gone, judging by the lack of diversity compared to the 90s.
The RS7000 shared the code-base of the original Motif - back then they both used Hitachi 32 bit CPUs running ITRON RTOS. When the Motif XS came out that code-base was ported to a Toshiba TX4939 MIPS RISC using MontaVista Linux.
Then another big code refactoring occurred when the above MIPS code was ported to a TI ARM chip on the Montage, but still using MontaVista Linux.
(Porting MIPS to ARM involves rewriting a lot of drivers - then again, so does moving from Linux kernel 3.x to 5.x)
I suspect the latter refactoring to ARM was the biggest job because the Montage was such a departure from the classic Motif work flow and frankly the UI felt so barren and kind of unpolished until the Montage M improved on it.
It also feels like the hardware heyday is long gone, judging by the lack of diversity compared to the 90s.
Statistics: Posted by sneak-thief — Sun Jun 23, 2024 12:43 am