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From: Mark Hatle <fray@mvista.com>
To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Binary Compatibility of various flavors of PPC
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:54:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DAB2EE8.2040900@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021014204900.BD7B3FAA5@denx.denx.de


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <3DAB2923.3060607@mvista.com> Mark Hatle wrote:
>
>>IMHO it is a bad practice to mix and match userspace between 403/8xx, 405, and
>>7xx/74xx/82xx series of processors.  It is just asking for problems..  but it
>>definatly can be done given proper resources and understanding of the underlying
>>problems.
>
>
> A lot of things _can_ be done. But do all these things make sense
> (technically and commercially)?

Hehe if ya want to pay me a million dollars (or more) I'll be happy to make it
work.. ;)  But I still won't recommend it to anyone.  The answer to this is
understand what you are getting yourself into and understand that you are
probably costing yourself much more over the short and long term to use a
"common" set of binaries then to use binaries tailored for the specific CPU that
you are using.

--Mark


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-14 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 16:46 Binary Compatibility of various flavors of PPC Bret Indrelee
2002-10-14 16:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-10-14 18:17   ` Bret Indrelee
2002-10-14 18:22     ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-10-14 17:13 ` Mark Hatle
2002-10-14 18:15   ` Matt Porter
2002-10-14 19:59     ` Kumar Gala
2002-10-14 20:29       ` Mark Hatle
2002-10-14 20:48         ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-10-14 20:54           ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2002-10-14 22:14         ` Magnus Damm
2002-10-14 21:37       ` Bret Indrelee
2002-10-14 22:26         ` Andrew May
     [not found] <005AF3F9.C21188@qlogic.com>
2002-10-14 22:30 ` Jerry Van Baren

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