From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B5D95D8.3040702@cray.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:35:52 -0500 From: David Updegraff Reply-To: dave@cray.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cindy Peters Cc: Stefan Roese , Linuxppc-Embedded Subject: Re: AW: New Linux PowerPC development References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi. We also use 405GP, and have a tentatively "stable" kernel from a 2.4.2 tree. The combination of these tools with PPCBOOT has been a really nice, open environment to work in... >>We feel we would have to design an interface into an FPGA. It doesn't >>support 100BaseT either. We are also looking at using either the >>MPC8260/MPC8265 or the IBM 405GP. I have been browsing through the >>mailing-list archives and have seen that these processors are both widely >>used. I would like some feedback from people that have experience in using >>these processors with Linux and what recommendations they have. >> > > We are using the IBM PPC405GP in some of our new designs and are pretty > pleased with the hardware itself. The only annoying thing is that the "free > available" Linux is still pretty buggy and old (at least 3 months or so) :-( > > By the way: Dan, how are you doing with the ppc4xx merge into the linuxppc > queue? > > Eventually (hopefully soon) when this problem is solved, I would recommend > the PPC405GP. > > Sorry I can't say anything about the Motorola parts and their Linux support. > > Stefan Roese > > > -- Dave Updegraff / dave@cray.com / 218-525-1154 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/