Choosing a Motorola CPU for linux

Choosing a Motorola CPU for linux

[Geoff Wyche]

Hello All,

I'm looking for some advice in choosing a new CPU for a custom embedded
application.  Our current design uses a motorola MPC860T, but that seems to
be falling out of favor.  We don't want to completely redesign the
architecture of our instrument.  In the past, we've used 68020, 68332, and
the MPC860T.

What choices do I have of (cheap) embedded Motorola CPUs, assuming I wish to
run Linux (not uClinux)?

--Geoff
gwyche@datum.com

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RE: Choosing a Motorola CPU for linux

[Geoff Wyche]

Dan, Kevin, Wolfgang D., Ken,

Thanks for your replies -- We'll take them into account in choosing our
future CPUs.  It's really hard to get a straight answer out of anyone in the
engineering dept. here.  I think we're sticking with the 860T for now.

--Geoff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Malek [mailto:dan@mvista.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:11 PM
> To: Geoff Wyche
> Cc: 'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'
> Subject: Re: Choosing a Motorola CPU for linux
>
>
> Geoff Wyche wrote:
>
> > ....Our current design uses a motorola MPC860T, but that seems to
> > be falling out of favor.
>
> What do you mean?  Does the part meet your product requirements?
> There are many more variations of the 8xx design to meet price or
> feature requirements, but it certainly isn't "falling out of favor."
>
>
> 	-- Dan
>

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Re: Choosing a Motorola CPU for linux

[Dan Malek]

Geoff Wyche wrote:

> ....Our current design uses a motorola MPC860T, but that seems to
> be falling out of favor.

What do you mean?  Does the part meet your product requirements?
There are many more variations of the 8xx design to meet price or
feature requirements, but it certainly isn't "falling out of favor."


	-- Dan

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