Re: Support for Motorola Platforms

[Johnnie Peters <jpeters@phx.mcd.mot.com>]

Mark Lin wrote:
> 
> Where did you get these patches?  Are they available to the public?

I did most of the work but a few others have had contributions to
these.  Motorola has allowed me to release these particular changes
to the web at this time.

Johnnie


> 
> --
> Mark Lin
> MPI Software Technology, Inc.
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Michael Meissner wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 03:37:13PM +0100, Adrian Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I have patches from Motorola to add Altivec support to egcs 1.0.3.  I haven't
> > been in PowerPC mode recently and haven't looked at 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
> > PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
> > email: meissner@cygnus.com    phone: 978-486-9304     fax: 978-692-4482

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