hi, thx for your answers!!! It looks like there no a special mailling list for this port(PowerPCSPEPort) and it looks like a non-offical supported architecture. Is there any downloads available? If this port is stable enough(Less kernel panic, support most software such iscdhcpd, bind and so on), I think I can use this as the OS of my product and I can also contribute some code if I can. :)
------------------ Bear 2010-09-15 ------------------------------------------------------------- From:Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Send Date:2010-09-15 19:30:51 To:Bear CC:debian-powerpc Subject:Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor * Bear | 2010-09-15 13:37:16 [+0800]: >And also, is there any FreeScale's processor can run debian-powerpc? thx! The e300 core based cpus like 5200, 512x,.. can run debian-powerpc as it. There is an overview at [0] [0] http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=POWER_ARCH_5XXX Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------- From:Didier Kryn Send Date:2010-09-15 17:03:49 To:Bear CC:debian-powerpc Subject:Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor Hi Bear. I have been running Debian for years on the following embedded PowerPCs: MPC60x (rather old) MPC7457 MPC8540 The MPC8540 has an e500 Version1 core, which is compatible with older PowerPCs, at the condition that FP instructions are emulated in the kernel, because it does not implement FP instructions. But e500v1 is now obsolete and e500v2 features a full set of instructions which are incompatible with older cores: FP instructions but not only, and some other instructions have been removed and are not emulated in the kernel (at least up to 2.6.34). Hence the need for a port to powerpc-linux-gnuspe. BTW, why not powerpcspe-linux-gnu? I am now running this Debian/Lenny port on MPC8548E (e500v2). Big thanks to the people who are working on the port: http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort Didier Bear a écrit : > hi, > I wanna build a network device with FreeScale MPC8533E PowerQUICC III > Processor chipset. But I dont know if the powerpc edition of debian can run > on it or not. Is there anyone who can tell me the answer? Or, if the powerpc > edition of debian is only for Apple's powerpc processor? And also, is there > any FreeScale's processor can run debian-powerpc? thx! > > -------------- > Bear > 2010-09-15 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- From:John Ogness Send Date:2010-09-15 15:05:25 To:debian-powerpc CC:Bear Subject:Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor On 2010-09-15, Bear <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanna build a network device with FreeScale MPC8533E PowerQUICC > III Processor chipset. But I dont know if the powerpc edition of > debian can run on it or not. Is there anyone who can tell me the > answer? Or, if the powerpc edition of debian is only for Apple's > powerpc processor? And also, is there any FreeScale's processor can > run debian-powerpc? The e500 core is not compatible with the debian-powerpc architecture. However, a new debian architecture (powerpcspe) is currently being created specifically for the e500 cores. The debian ports page for it is here [0]. From the build stats page [1] you can see that over 90% of the debian packages have already been built. Be aware that there are several open bug reports, including a compiler bug that has currently stalled the project. You may also want to ask Freescale about this port. I expect that Freescale is also interested in seeing this port become official. [0] http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort [1] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/ John Ogness ------------------------------------------------------------- From:Gary Send Date:2010-09-15 14:05:14 To:debian-powerpc CC: Subject:Re: About the FreeScale e500 series processor Have a look at the SPE port: http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort If you drill down far enough in Freescale's info about the chip series you're asking about, check their "Software & Tools" links for refs to several embedded OS vendors like QNX, Windriver, etc. that have supported these platforms for many years on stable, production ready embedded platforms. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
