From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33198) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqQZx-00020H-Im for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:13:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqQZw-0006Kc-Fc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:13:17 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:42015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqQZw-0006KQ-7C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:13:16 -0400 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: References: <4E3BD4AD.1060005@etrix.com.au> <4E3F3D89.6070609@etrix.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:12:53 +1000 Message-ID: <1312812773.8598.79.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] support for Freescale MPC8xx (850/860) processors/platforms List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: brendan.simon@etrix.com.au, qemu-devel Developers 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.