I am mildly surprised that Blackfin support has been dropped. A few years ago, many digital cameras had a Blackfin for both GUI and DSP. I remember working with

I am mildly surprised that Blackfin support has been dropped. A few years ago, many digital cameras had a Blackfin for both GUI and DSP. I remember working with SHARC (harvard-architecture CPU from Analog Devices) and seeing the main advantage of Blackfin being that it could run Linux and, supposedly, being better equipped to run a complete GUI with several applications. I expected AD to take advantage of this and support Linux for some time, but instead, it rotted. Good thing I did not went through this route. Also, I guess the architectures pruning was one reason he decided not to go with the 5.0 version. It would give even more meaning to the version number.