* Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP
@ 2004-11-03 23:17 Rick McBain
2004-11-04 0:27 ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-11-04 17:25 ` Matt Porter
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From: Rick McBain @ 2004-11-03 23:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-embedded
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.
Best regards,
Rick McBain
LogicSense Networks
www.logicsense.com
BTW. We are currently in the process of debugging our Uboot/PPCboot port
to the 440EP which supports NAND flash...
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* Re: Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP
2004-11-03 23:17 Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP Rick McBain
@ 2004-11-04 0:27 ` Eugene Surovegin
2004-11-04 17:25 ` Matt Porter
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From: Eugene Surovegin @ 2004-11-04 0:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rick McBain; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded
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.
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* Re: Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP
2004-11-03 23:17 Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP Rick McBain
2004-11-04 0:27 ` Eugene Surovegin
@ 2004-11-04 17:25 ` Matt Porter
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From: Matt Porter @ 2004-11-04 17:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rick McBain; +Cc: linuxppc-embedded
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.
Since IBM->AMCC did the raw kernel port and toolchain for 440EP, why
don't you ask them for it? Then you can roll your own distribution
for far cheaper than $25k. What do you need working? There are
a lot of new features on 440EP.
-Matt
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