My 2 cents: I happened to use all your options these years:--(.
750fx + 64260 it should be good enough if you don't have MP(Multi-CPU) demand for running smp-os on top of it. The reason is obivous: 750fx is G3. The MEI protocol may not be prefered if your system happens to be a high-end applicances. 750fx + 64360 if you do want to stay 750 and need SMP, you may have to use 64360. Check out Marvell FAE people to understand their Arbiter part, which have some fixes for SMP support. If you have legacy issue, note that some tiny porting work needed for 64360 part. 7447 + 64260 No one would go for this option 7447 + 64360 Well, G4+ MES(R)I is born to support SMP system. So, if you concern this part, do go for it. One thing you need talk to your hardware board group is: Powerp Consumption. If you guys are able to live with it, go for it:-). Also, if you have legacy codes under IBM 750-based system, please pay high alert on driver part. For example, Out of Order issue when under Non-Cachable and Guard......One missing will make your driver all srew up. For more detail, you are welcome to talk to me. Good luck, Huailin Chen www.xtrj.org --- Xiaoshan Zuo <xzuo at vinesystech.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are planning design a custom board. The preferred > cpu is IBM 750FX, > the bridge is going to be Marvell 64360. Depending > on the software > support, we may alter our plan to use either > 750FX/64260 or Motorola > 7447/64360/64260. It seems that 64360 is not > supported in stock kernel, > there is galieo tree for that, but I am not sure the > code is really > stable. Anyone has experience using 750fx/64360? > Which version of > gcc/kernel/u-boot should I use? If that is not a > good option, then how > about 750FX/64260 or Motorola 7447/64360/64260? Any > suggestions/comments > will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Xiaoshan > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
