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Re: Status of PPC40x in eCos?
- From: Peter Vandenabeele <peter dot vandenabeele at mind dot be>
- To: "Schumacher, Gordon" <gordon_schumacher at maxtor dot com>
- Cc: 'Andrew Lunn' <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>, Niklaus Giger <niklaus dot giger at member dot fsf dot org>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:22:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Status of PPC40x in eCos?
- Organisation: Mind NV -- http://mind.be/ -- Leuven/Belgium
- References: <E836CBDA0DC0D5118606009027DE2A0C983D15@MCOEXC02>
- Reply-to: Peter Vandenabeele <peter dot vandenabeele at mind dot be>
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:32:07AM -0700, Schumacher, Gordon wrote:
> # From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew.lunn@ascom.ch]
> # Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:44 AM
> # To: Niklaus Giger
> # Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> # Subject: Re: [ECOS] Status of PPC40x in eCos?
>
> Wow - someone beat me to it, I was planning on asking the very same
> question!
>
> # It looks like there are no targets for the ppc40x. This happens when
> # the target board RedHat was developing for was a customers custom
> # board and not a standard board. In those cases, the generic parts are
> # made public, but not the customer specific parts.
>
> Hmm. We're looking hard at the Xilinx FPGA core with the embedded PPC405
> for a future project... it would be for us good to know what other
> development efforts are occurring for the PPC405, as we don't really have
> the resources at this point to bring up a new port from (substantially)
> scratch. In that circumstance, we'd probably just end up running Linux.
>
> However, if there's additional development going on, there's some chance
> that we might be able to pitch in on it. (The project is at least a couple
> of months off, though.)
We are very interested in getting eCos on that board as well. We already
have Linux running on it, and would certainly be interested in a project
that would get eCos running on it.
Peter
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