PXA27x / IXP4xx CE5.0 BSPs production readiness?

What are the thoughts out there on how "production ready" the shipped
CE5.0 BSPs are for the Intel IXP425 and PXA270?

We are contemplating a new development with one or other of these
processors and will run CE 5.0. MS say that they have put a lot of
effort into ensuring that the BSPs for 5.0 are really production ready.

We found that it took a lot of work to get the CE .NET 4.2 BSP for the
PXA255 to the state where we considered that it was ready for shipping.
Is it just as hard for these BSPs or have MS/Intel done what they say?

Thanks for all comments,
Andrew.

Steve
Thu Jun 23 06:48:30 CDT 2005

That all depends on the functionality you require before shipping. BSPs are
tied to a specific block of hardware and are thus inherently non-trivial.
(E.g. Is it bad code, bad hardware or both?) The BSPs from MS are for a
specific development board and will need porting for your hardware to
support features not on the development boards. A Well designed BSP allows
for a significant re-use of the code across devices allowing for easy
extension for a specific platform. In general this is better in V5.0 but
there are still issues and hardware assumptions in the ms common OAL code
for the PXA processors.

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