Subject: Re: coldfire 54xx port?
To: None <tech-embed@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <locore32@gaea.ocn.ne.jp>
List: tech-embed
Date: 05/19/2004 13:16:42
Aaron J. Grier agrier@poofygoof.com asked;

> since the newest members of motorola^Wfreescale's coldfire family have
> MMUs, it should be possible to port NetBSD to them, yes?
> 
> http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/taxonomy.jsp?nodeId=03C1TRrpxN188400M9

Did you say freesale? :-}

I've CF4e UM at hand.  The MMU architecture looks capable of running NetBSD.

- software managed TLBs (independent ITLB and DTLB),
- TLB is ASID tagged, 8bit, ASID 0 is reserved for kernel,
- SG bit for address space sharing, neglecting ASID,
- cache mode bits in TLB, page granularity control,

Cache architecture is unclear for me.  It might or not be virtual addressed cache.

Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology