Subject: Re: Why does the PPC601 not work?
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Donald Lee <donlee@icompute.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 08/04/1999 08:02:08
Dan Winship wrote:
>One of the big differences is that the BATs, which are one of the
>virtual memory mapping things, work slightly differently, and can only
>map much smaller subsections of memory. Dealing with the porting for
>this would probably require deep understanding of the kernel.
>
>Another difference is that the 601 keeps track of the time since
>startup differently than the other PowerPCs ("real time clock"
>registers vs "time base" registers). There are a handful of other
>small things too.

Thanks.  This was my guess.  The VM stuff is obviously the show stopper.
Depending on what I want to do, the other stuff may or may not matter.
Does a list exist?  Is there a guide somewhere on how to set up
to build (debug) kernels?

-dgl-