Re: PMC processor board recommendation?

[Lennart Augustsson <lennart%augustsson.net@localhost>]

Both the board and the port are usable.  But there are some caveats.
The board might be hard to find, because IBM has end-of-lifed the
CPC700 host bridge that the card uses.
At the moment the pmppc port is broken.  Some generic ppc changes
broke it.  I'm still hoping that the responsible part will fix the breakage
or at least tell me what I'm supposed to do.  But if you check out
a version from Feb 1 it works fine.

   -- Lennart

Matthias Drochner wrote:

> Hi -
> for a hardware development/test setup we need a system on
> a PMC board, compliant to the PrPMC VITA standard. The processor
> architectures available are PowerPC, MIPS and ARM, to my knowledge.
> I'd prefer the PowerPC here.
>
> There seems to be the Artesyn "pmppc" supported by NetBSD.
> Would you call the board and the port usable?
>
> The Motorola product line (PrPMC610 or PrPMC800) might have
> some more market coverage, but I didn't find anything about
> OS support there. Is there someone working on a NetBSD port?
>
> (I'd even run Linux, because there is not enough time for a
> serious OS porting project, but MontaVista is too expensive.)
>
> Other recommendations?
>
> thanks & best regards
> Matthias
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