Re: Porting to PowerPMC-280?

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

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.