From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: Rick McBain <rick.mcbain@logicsense.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:27:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041104002734.GA4063@gate.ebshome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002b01c4c1fb$49adde60$6802a8c0@RicksPresario900>
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:17:27PM -0800, Rick McBain wrote:
> Does anybody have a working distribution for the 440EP? We were planning
> to use a Timesys port, but we've now been told it doesn't exist (after
> months of promises it did.). Our other option is to pay US$25K to
> MontaVista, but that seems a tad pricey, and our previous experience
> with them is that they delivered us an ARM port which fundamentally
> didn't work.
>
Just FYI, 44x port was made by MontaVista.
Try the following exercise, grep the kernel code and see how much was
written for PPC by Timesys and then make your decision.
FWIW, it should be relatively simple to do 440EP port, we already
have working 440GP & 440GX in both 2.4 & 2.6.
--
Eugene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-04 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-03 23:17 Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP Rick McBain
2004-11-04 0:27 ` Eugene Surovegin [this message]
2004-11-04 17:25 ` Matt Porter
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