There's segments of the embedded systems market (networking comes to mind) where PowerPC processors do well. A lot of those embedded systems run Linux. And it just may be that the best development host for a PowerPC Linux target is a PowerPC Linux host.
Wind is doing more than thinking about Eclipse. One of their three major announcements today was for a new Eclipse-based IDE, named WindPower IDE 2. And it supports both Linux and VxWorks, so you're right.
VxWorks 6.0 (with process-level memory protection, among other things) was also announced.
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AltiVec is big in military applications. Sonar, radar and such are imaging problems at heart.
There's segments of the embedded systems market (networking comes to mind) where PowerPC processors do well. A lot of those embedded systems run Linux. And it just may be that the best development host for a PowerPC Linux target is a PowerPC Linux host.
Wind is doing more than thinking about Eclipse. One of their three major announcements today was for a new Eclipse-based IDE, named WindPower IDE 2. And it supports both Linux and VxWorks, so you're right. VxWorks 6.0 (with process-level memory protection, among other things) was also announced.