From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Mark Chambers" Cc: "Gerrit Van de Velde" , linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Motorola 5200 MIPS From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 May 2004 10:39:20 EDT." <002101c4311c$6ca7d440$0301a8c0@chuck2> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:32:59 +0200 Message-Id: <20040503153304.34906C109F@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <002101c4311c$6ca7d440$0301a8c0@chuck2> you wrote: > > OK, I know I'm anal-retentive, but I can't just accept "it has 'bogo' in the > name, so therefore it means nothing." We've run linux on several 8xx family Then go back and read the archives. This has been discussed several times before. > parts and the bogomips closely tracked the expected performance of 1 > instruction/clock. Now all of a sudden it doesn't mean anything? So I It never meant anything. You can compare values within the same processor family, i. e. MPC8xx, but not across different families which may use - for example - a completely different bus interface. > P.S. I'm a fan of Motorola processors, hope I didn't sound too ugly. What > would the world be like if Bill had chosen the 68000??? There would be a so-called "operating system" which was to be 68k compatible and full of bugs ;-) Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de The ideal situation is to have massive computing power right at home. Something that dims the streetlights and shrinks the picture on the neighbours' TVs when you boot it up. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/