Thanks for the comments. Those are certainly good points. What OS did you use? Any suggestions on the Linux kernel to use? BTW, your website is just interesting.
Xiaoshan **** Huailin Chen wrote **** > My 2 cents: > > I happened to use all your options these years:--(. > > 750fx + 64260 > it should be good enough if you don't have > MP(Multi-CPU) demand for running smp-os on top of it. > The reason is obivous: 750fx is G3. The MEI protocol > may not be prefered if your system happens to be a > high-end applicances. > > 750fx + 64360 > > if you do want to stay 750 and need SMP, you may have > to use 64360. Check out Marvell FAE people to > understand their Arbiter part, which have some fixes > for SMP support. If you have legacy issue, note that > some tiny porting work needed for 64360 part. > > 7447 + 64260 > No one would go for this option > > 7447 + 64360 > > Well, G4+ MES(R)I is born to support SMP system. So, > if you concern this part, do go for it. One thing you > need talk to your hardware board group is: Powerp > Consumption. If you guys are able to live with it, go > for it:-). > > Also, if you have legacy codes under IBM 750-based > system, please pay high alert on driver part. For > example, Out of Order issue when under Non-Cachable > and Guard......One missing will make your driver all > srew up. For more detail, you are welcome to talk to > me. > > Good luck, > Huailin Chen > www.xtrj.org > > > > > --- Xiaoshan Zuo <xzuo at vinesystech.com> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > We are planning design a custom board. The preferred > > cpu is IBM 750FX, > > the bridge is going to be Marvell 64360. Depending > > on the software > > support, we may alter our plan to use either > > 750FX/64260 or Motorola > > 7447/64360/64260. It seems that 64360 is not > > supported in stock kernel, > > there is galieo tree for that, but I am not sure the > > code is really > > stable. Anyone has experience using 750fx/64360? > > Which version of > > gcc/kernel/u-boot should I use? If that is not a > > good option, then how > > about 750FX/64260 or Motorola 7447/64360/64260? Any > > suggestions/comments > > will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Xiaoshan > > > > > > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
