Subject: Re: mpc823/860 status?
To: Takashi Hosokawa <takashi@plathome.co.jp>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/02/2002 12:50:06
At 03:07 AM 10/16/2001, Takashi Hosokawa wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> >
> > I didn't find anything new in the port-powerpc mailing list archive, and
> > grepping htdocs/Ports/*/* didn't turn up anything either, so:
> >
> >       What's the status of NetBSD WRT support of mpc823/860?
> >
> > In that context, why is there a htdocs/Ports/openblocks, but no
> > /sys/arch/openblocks ?!
>
>I'm now porting NetBSD on OpenBlockS (mpc860). But current pmap has
>bugs. This is only the reason why I do not import mpc8xx port into
>CVS. Since I have to rewrite pmap.c (current implementation is based on
>i386 pmap.c). I's a totaly different VM space structure between i386 and
>powerpc. Current powerpc implementation has independent kernel VA and user
>VA, on the other hands, i386 has same VA space. My idea is, like ibm4xx
>ports, add mpc8xx directory into powerpc directoty and share powerpc
>specific source code. This means change VM space structure (and pmap.c) to
>meet for current powerpc port. Any other good idea ? I welcome any
>suggestions.

I now have both the 860 and IBM405GP versions of OpenBlockS.  I'd like to
see progress for getting both of them into the CVS repository.  This includes
generic mpc8xx support.

Any current news on your progress?


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