From: Adrian Cox <apc@agelectronics.co.uk>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Support for Motorola Platforms
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 15:37:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3757E499.32339D86@agelectronics.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3757E59D.B18BCA8C@phx.mcd.mot.com
Johnnie Peters wrote:
> Motorola has a new version of the MVME2400 with the MAX processor and
> as soon as I can get my hands on one I will do the work to get Linux
> to run on it. Plans are also underway for new versions of the MTX
> series
> supporting the MAX processor.
Has anybody started work on GNU tools and kernel porting for Altivec
processors? The issues I see are:
(1) Altivec intructions in gas, so I don't have to enter the codes by
hand.
(2) Linux Kernel patches to load/save Altivec registers. These are large
enough that a lazy load/save might be useful.
(3) (Questionable) Patches to EGCS to support the C extensions that
Motorola specify in the Altivec PIM. I detest C extensions that add the
keyword "vector", but all Motorola's example code uses them.
All of these can be done based on documentation from Motorola's website.
I suspect that (1) has already happened inside some RTOS vendors, but
will take a long time to filter into the standard releases.
- Adrian Cox
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-04 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-04 14:41 Support for Motorola Platforms Johnnie Peters
1999-06-04 14:37 ` Adrian Cox [this message]
1999-06-04 15:59 ` Michael Meissner
1999-06-04 19:19 ` Mark Lin
1999-06-04 21:33 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-06-04 21:26 ` Mark Lin
1999-06-04 23:18 ` Johnnie Peters
1999-06-04 22:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-06-08 1:44 ` Mark Lin
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2006-03-23 16:27 CJ Anderson
1999-06-04 0:52 Johnnie Peters
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