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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:20:47 -0400
From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
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Tomas Carmen wrote:

> I would like to know if the linux kernel or the bootloader developed for
> PPC (MPC8xx) can working well
> over a 16 bits environment (FLASH and RAM).

You mean you are just using a 16-bit data bus?  Kind of weird, but
the software doesn't care.  Make sure you run with caches on and
make sure you are careful of multiword cycles when accessing I/O
in 32-bit operations.


	-- Dan

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