Low cost PPC board running Linux (with MMU): http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=TWR-MPC5125-KIT
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen < lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 08:39:22PM +0200, angelo wrote: > > many thanks, > > > > i am wandering why they use a PPC (MMU) to run at 50 Mhz, just with a > > flash and an sdram ... > > It's a nice instruction set, and a CPU with an MMU is a lot nicer to > work with. So assuming it isn't too expensive (it probably isn't), > it is probably a good choice. > > I know we would rather have used a powerpc with MMU than a coldfire > without on the boards we use the coldfire, but costs involved with the > powerpc option (more voltage rails to feed, much more expensive ram, > etc) made the powerpc option impractical. uclinux on the coldfire works > fine for the task though. > > -- > Len Sorensen > _______________________________________________ > uClinux-dev mailing list > uClinux-dev@uclinux.org > http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev > This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org > To unsubscribe see: > http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev >
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