-----Original Message----- From: Dan Malek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:27 PM To: Cindy Peters Cc: 'linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org' Subject: Re: New Linux PowerPC development
Dan Malek wrote: >Cindy Peters wrote: >> The MPC823, however, does not have an IDE or PCI interface for a hard disk. >Sure it does. Just use the PCMCIA. >> We feel we would have to design an interface into an FPGA. >This is also a solution many people use. Lots less expensive and >less complex than a PCI adapter. We have just recently been instructed by management to stay with the MPC823 in order to re-use the previous software and hardware development as much as possible. We are looking at using some VHDL IP provided by Open Cores (this is very new) for the IDE interface. Are you familiar with this? The VHDL code uses a processor independent interface called a wishbone interface. I don't know much about it yet. I don't know if this is something standard or just developed for Open Cores. Do you (or anyone else) know of any driver software that may be available for this interface? > -- Dan Also, I am trying to determine the approximate time it takes the 823 to access memory (i.e. external EDO DRAM). Does anyone know? I have downloaded the lmbench software to determine some benchmarking information. I am not sure how to build it for the PPC. I have a cross compiler development environment setup in a subdirectory. Can someone help me with this? Thanks. Cindy ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
