On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Alex Zeffertt wrote: > Can anybody tell me if there is a way to identify which processor from > the MPC8xx family software is running on. I hoped I could use the IMMR > special purpose register. However, this only tells you the silicon > revision, which can have the same value even if the processors are > different! > > Does the processor type (e.g. 862, 857T, 857DSL) reside anywhere in the > processor?
U-Boot/PPCboots cpu/mpc8xx/cpu.c contains a lot of generic type detection code, but even there the assumes that the basic type is known at compile time. Regards, Marius ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marius Groeger SYSGO Real-Time Solutions AG mgroeger at sysgo.de Software Engineering Embedded and Real-Time Software www.sysgo.de Voice: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 www.osek.de FAX: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim, Germany www.elinos.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
