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From: Tom Roberts <tjroberts@lucent.com>
To: Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Linux on Motorola Sandpoint/PPMC7400
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:04:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39ABC306.BDA989EA@lucent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20000828225504.B23679@hectic.net


Alex Shnitman wrote:
> I've seen that Hard Hat Linux supports the Sandpoint board with
> MPC8240 and MPC755. We have a 7400 processor there though. Does anyone
> have any experience with this configuration? Can Linux run on it?

While I have no experience with this board, I have run Linux on our
own boards, with MPC750, MPC755, and MPC7400. Note these three can
all be obtained in APPROXIMATELY pin-compatible packages, and their
architecthres are compatible (the 7400 adds AltiVec; I'm ignoring
differences in clock speed, cache size, etc). The MPC8240 is I believe
a completely different beast (I've never used one).

I used Linux Kernel 2.2.15 from YellowDog, heavily customized to run
on our boards. I made no MPC7400-specific changes, however. Note I
made no effort at all to optimize it for the 7400 (other than adding
the proper l2cr parameter -- yes, your software has to be aware of
the hardware platform's details (:-().

	I have only 1 board with 7400s, and we are modifying it to
	try and evaluate SMP architecture....


Tom Roberts	tjroberts@lucent.com

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2000-08-29 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-28 19:55 Linux on Motorola Sandpoint/PPMC7400 Alex Shnitman
2000-08-28 20:03 ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-28 20:35   ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-28 21:01     ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-29 16:43       ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-28 23:14 ` Mark A. Greer
2000-08-29 17:13   ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-29 19:16     ` Mark A. Greer
2000-08-30 18:58       ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-30 19:20         ` Mark A. Greer
2000-09-03  4:42         ` Bob Doyle
2000-09-04 10:37           ` Adrian Cox
2000-08-30 19:02       ` Alex Shnitman
2000-08-31  0:45         ` Matt Porter
2000-08-30 23:46           ` Dan Malek
2000-08-31 11:13             ` Gabriel Paubert
2000-08-31 15:01               ` Peter Tympanick
2000-08-29 21:27     ` Mark A. Greer
2000-08-29 14:04 ` Tom Roberts [this message]

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