Please don't mind correcting me on what I said here. I would love to hear some feedback from the community, and possibly the folks at Motorola, Timesys, Montavista.
Regards, David Ho Nanometrics, Inc > > Hi all, > > Just wondering, do we have a person from Motorola or a well known embedded > linux company that actively ensures the operation of the Linux kernel on > mpc8xx, 2.6 in particular? > > I noticed that is a lot of work being done by Montavista on the IBM PowerPC > chips and Timesys is working heavily on the Motorola 82xx for the 2.6 > kernel. But not that much noise is made from these companies in regard to > the mpc8xx. Should this be a concern? > > Wolfgeng mentioned in his interview with Linux Device ( > http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2240586951.html) that 2.6 may be slow, > but if there are so many 2.6 features that are beneficial to embedded > development (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7477), why is > mpc8xx , as I see it, being somewhat left behind. > > Regards, > > David Ho > Nanometrics, Inc > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
