From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: brendan.simon@etrix.com.au,
qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] support for Freescale MPC8xx (850/860) processors/platforms
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:12:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312812773.8598.79.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E228A8D9-A40D-4CB4-9FEB-C33EC1C1B746@suse.de>
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 15:57 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone working on Freescale MPC8xx (embedded PowerPC) processors ??
> >
> > I'm trying to ascertain if the MPC8xx (MPC850) processors are
> > supported, and if not, how much effort would be required to get it
> > working.
> >
>
>
> I'm not aware of anyone working on MPC8xx CPU support. In fact, I
> don't really know what they look like - I guess they're 601 derived?
>
> Ben, any idea how much different 8xx is?
Gothic horrors :-)
They have an MMU of their own. SW loaded TLB but different from anything
else. They have a lot of other "quirks" too.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-08 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-05 11:31 [Qemu-devel] support for Freescale MPC8xx (850/860) processors/platforms Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
2011-08-08 1:36 ` Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
2011-08-08 13:57 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-08 14:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2011-08-09 1:17 ` Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
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