From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3757E499.32339D86@agelectronics.co.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 15:37:13 +0100 From: Adrian Cox MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Support for Motorola Platforms References: <3757E59D.B18BCA8C@phx.mcd.mot.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Johnnie Peters wrote: > Motorola has a new version of the MVME2400 with the MAX processor and > as soon as I can get my hands on one I will do the work to get Linux > to run on it. Plans are also underway for new versions of the MTX > series > supporting the MAX processor. Has anybody started work on GNU tools and kernel porting for Altivec processors? The issues I see are: (1) Altivec intructions in gas, so I don't have to enter the codes by hand. (2) Linux Kernel patches to load/save Altivec registers. These are large enough that a lazy load/save might be useful. (3) (Questionable) Patches to EGCS to support the C extensions that Motorola specify in the Altivec PIM. I detest C extensions that add the keyword "vector", but all Motorola's example code uses them. All of these can be done based on documentation from Motorola's website. I suspect that (1) has already happened inside some RTOS vendors, but will take a long time to filter into the standard releases. - Adrian Cox [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]