On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:44 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > On 09/16/2010 03:39 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:06:37 -0600 > > Chris Friesen <chris.frie...@genband.com> wrote: > > > >> We're looking at maybe doing some work with an e5500-based system. Is > >> there any support existing/planned for this core? > > > > Check with whoever you'd be getting the hardware from about a BSP. > > > > And yes, it should be supported upstream at some point. > > We haven't settled on a vendor yet, so I was just wondering in general > what the story was around support.
Well, the "core" support for 64-bit BookE is upstream (and has been for a little while) so +/- specific tweaks FSL may have done and the usual SoC/board support, it shouldn't be too far off. > Right. We currently use a 970-series cpu and have implemented a > per-process flag to indicate whether 32-byte mode is needed or not. > We'd have to do something similar with the new cpu. Sounds like a candidate for upstreaming the patch :-) > One last question--can you comment on the speed of an e5500 relative to > a 970 for integer operations? Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
