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Re: Status of PPC40x in eCos?


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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