Re: Freescale MCF5475 (really MCF54xx)

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Hi,

I would be interested in this. There is a linux port that will run on
these processors, although I am not sure how stable it is. I would really
like to see a port here. There have been several attampts at an
accelerator card for 68k systems, but either they haven't been successful
or for some reason they aren't selling them. I myself would not be able to
right the code for such a port (wish I could), but if there is other
assistance that I could be, please let me know.

Thanks,
Al


On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Kurt J. Lidl wrote:

> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:48:38 -0500
> From: Kurt J. Lidl <lidl%pix.net@localhost>
> To: port-m68k%netbsd.org@localhost
> Subject: Freescale MCF5475 (really MCF54xx)
>
> Greetings all.
>
> Looking back over the last several months of the mailing
> list archives, I see a couple of references to an attempt
> to port NetBSD to the Coldfire CFV4e based processors.
>
> Since these have an MMU, it ought to be possible to have
> the full goodness of a protected mode OS running on them.
>
> Is there anything to report for those of us who have
> an interest in this processor?
>
> Also, anybody looked at the newer, spiffier Coldfire
> MFC5445X processors?  They look pretty nice too, especially
> with the addition of an ATA controller and the ability
> to have much larger memory configurations.  (I'm guessing
> that the MMU is the same for these at the MFC54xx series
> processors.)
>
> The MFC5445x evaluation board ships with U-Boot, which can
> suck in tagged ELF binaries directly -- seems like it would be
> a pretty nice place to develop stuff.
>
> Thanks for any information.
>
> -Kurt
>