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From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP
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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