* Ocotea board?
@ 2007-10-23 18:13 Jeff Mock
2007-10-23 20:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-24 17:09 ` Jeff Mock
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Mock @ 2007-10-23 18:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev, linuxppc-embedded
Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
own hardware.
I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
little something back.
The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
storeroom purgatory.
jeff
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* Re: Ocotea board?
2007-10-23 18:13 Ocotea board? Jeff Mock
@ 2007-10-23 20:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-23 21:18 ` Josh Boyer
2007-10-24 17:09 ` Jeff Mock
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt @ 2007-10-23 20:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Mock; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linuxppc-embedded
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:13 -0700, Jeff Mock wrote:
> Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
> I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
> Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
> own hardware.
>
> I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
> would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
> I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
> little something back.
Well, the ocotea has an interesting "feature" related to the way the
ethernet PHY an EMAC interact which I haven't dealt with in the new EMAC
driver at this stage.
I -think- the Taishan I have may have the same issue though, in which
case I won't need it, but if not, I could have good use (or Josh in
Rochester) for one of these.
> The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
> powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
> has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
> that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
>
> Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
> storeroom purgatory.
>
> jeff
>
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* Re: Ocotea board?
2007-10-23 20:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
@ 2007-10-23 21:18 ` Josh Boyer
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Josh Boyer @ 2007-10-23 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: benh; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, Jeff Mock, linuxppc-embedded
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:36:11 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:13 -0700, Jeff Mock wrote:
> > Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
> > I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
> > Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
> > own hardware.
> >
> > I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
> > would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
> > I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
> > little something back.
>
> Well, the ocotea has an interesting "feature" related to the way the
> ethernet PHY an EMAC interact which I haven't dealt with in the new EMAC
> driver at this stage.
>
> I -think- the Taishan I have may have the same issue though, in which
> case I won't need it, but if not, I could have good use (or Josh in
> Rochester) for one of these.
Hardware is always welcome. I actually care about 4xx so if Ben
doesn't want it then I'm sure I could find a good home...
josh
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* Re: Ocotea board?
2007-10-23 18:13 Ocotea board? Jeff Mock
2007-10-23 20:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
@ 2007-10-24 17:09 ` Jeff Mock
2007-10-24 18:55 ` Charlie Ashton
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jeff Mock @ 2007-10-24 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linuxppc-dev, linuxppc-embedded
Thanks for all of the replies, it's nice to hear that the 440GX isn't
obsolete yet... A relatively arbitrary decision, but I'm going to send
the Ocotea board to Josh.
jeff
Jeff Mock wrote:
> Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
> I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
> Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
> own hardware.
>
> I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
> would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
> I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
> little something back.
>
> The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
> powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
> has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
> that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
>
> Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
> storeroom purgatory.
>
> jeff
>
> _______________________________________________
> Linuxppc-embedded mailing list
> Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
> https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
>
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* RE: Ocotea board?
2007-10-24 17:09 ` Jeff Mock
@ 2007-10-24 18:55 ` Charlie Ashton
2007-10-24 23:18 ` Jeff Mock
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Charlie Ashton @ 2007-10-24 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jeff Mock, linuxppc-dev, linuxppc-embedded
The AMCC 440GX processor is by no means obsolete. There are more
customers for this processor every month. There is a new, comprehensive
evaluation kit called "Taishan"
(http://www.amcc.com/Embedded/evalkits/440GX_PB_1_04.pdf), which AMCC
provides to customers and partners. "Ocotea" is a board that was
originally designed and used for processor validation purposes.
Regards,
Charlie
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Subject: Re: Ocotea board?
Thanks for all of the replies, it's nice to hear that the 440GX isn't=20
obsolete yet... A relatively arbitrary decision, but I'm going to send
the Ocotea board to Josh.
jeff
Jeff Mock wrote:
> Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
> I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on=20
> the Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto
> our own hardware.
>=20
> I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I=20
> would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
> I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give
> a little something back.
>=20
> The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just=20
> powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now=20
> has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
> that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
>=20
> Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in=20
> storeroom purgatory.
>=20
> jeff
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* Re: Ocotea board?
2007-10-24 18:55 ` Charlie Ashton
@ 2007-10-24 23:18 ` Jeff Mock
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From: Jeff Mock @ 2007-10-24 23:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Charlie Ashton; +Cc: linuxppc-dev, linuxppc-embedded
Well, I suppose that it was really just a little poke to see if anyone
from AMCC reads the mailing list :) No offense intended.
The 440GX worked out great for my project, a new spectrometer for the
radio telescope in Arecibo. There are 14 of these boxes running in
parallel at the telescope. We got good performance out of the 440GX in
all respects with no major hangups during development.
jeff
Charlie Ashton wrote:
> The AMCC 440GX processor is by no means obsolete. There are more
> customers for this processor every month. There is a new, comprehensive
> evaluation kit called "Taishan"
> (http://www.amcc.com/Embedded/evalkits/440GX_PB_1_04.pdf), which AMCC
> provides to customers and partners. "Ocotea" is a board that was
> originally designed and used for processor validation purposes.
>
> Regards,
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces+cashton=amcc.com@ozlabs.org
> [mailto:linuxppc-embedded-bounces+cashton=amcc.com@ozlabs.org] On Behalf
> Of Jeff Mock
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:10 PM
> To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: Ocotea board?
>
> Thanks for all of the replies, it's nice to hear that the 440GX isn't
> obsolete yet... A relatively arbitrary decision, but I'm going to send
>
> the Ocotea board to Josh.
>
> jeff
>
>
> Jeff Mock wrote:
>> Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
>
>> I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on
>> the Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto
>
>> our own hardware.
>>
>> I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
>> would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
>> I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give
>
>> a little something back.
>>
>> The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
>> powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
>> has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
>
>> that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
>>
>> Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
>> storeroom purgatory.
>>
>> jeff
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Linuxppc-embedded mailing list
>> Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
>> https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
>>
>
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