Subject: Re: Porting to PowerPMC-280?
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_Br=FCckner?= <sb@thebackend.de>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 01/11/2007 10:40:36
Sebastian Brückner wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to get NetBSD working on Motorola/Force Computers
> PowerPMC-280 boards. They are PMC modules holding mainly a MPC7447
> PowerPC G4 cpu and a Marvell Discovery II mv64360 system controller. I
> am quite new to NetBSD kernel hacking so no idea if this is a realistic
> project. At the moment I am gathering the required docs (Marvell
> apparently requires people to sign a NDA to get the data sheets).
Good luck. :)
> I thought of using evbppc and the ev64260 board as my starting point. Is
> that the right(tm) choice?
The best(tm) choice.
> Before I start digging throug the code: Does the current marvell driver
> support the mv64360? Is there any place where I can find that kind of
> info? The total lack of comments in the sources often leaves me guessing
> what hardware a specific driver supports.
There is no support for 64360 in NetBSD currently.