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From: Magnus Damm <damm@kieraypc01•p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se>
To: R&D <iyd@sepac•com.mx>
Cc: "linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org" <linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Help booting MBX through bootd
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:38:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <375FB1BE.1789E049@switchboard.ericsson.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199906091737.MAA25209@www.albec.net.mx


Hi there!

There are a few problems today with 8xx linux.
People out there: Correct me if I'm wrong.

I blame some of the strange problems on silicon bugs 
in the mpc860 chip. Read the chip errata.

My MBX board has a XPC860ENZPA.
I think I have a C1 chip on a other board which works better.

The memory management is a bit strange.
On some boards is it neccesary to reserve a few tlb entries.

One other problem is that the 8xx series don't have a fpu.
That is not a kernel problem, more a libc problem.

The last problem I know is that the 8xx has a smaller 
(4 words) cahce line length compared to 60x.

I think you should get a crosscompiler.

Cheers /

Magnus

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-06-10 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-09 11:39 Help booting MBX through bootd R&D
1999-06-10 12:38 ` Magnus Damm [this message]
1999-06-10 20:24   ` Wolfgang Denk
     [not found] <376110CB.8CE16CAF@switchboard.ericsson.se>
1999-06-11 16:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
1999-06-11 21:24   ` Heinz Blaettner
1999-06-14 10:57     ` Marcus Sundberg

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