RE: Query: kernel version for MPC750/MPC7400

Classic linux kernel like 2.2.16 works well and reliably on PPC 7xx
processors.
The Monta Vista kernel is only tested on 8xx processor, and the 7xx support
is probably broken.

Patrick LERDA

-----Message d'origine-----
De:	Tom Roberts [SMTP:tjroberts@lucent.com]
Date:	mardi 27 juin 2000 16:00
À:	Dan Malek
Cc:	'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'
Objet:	Query: kernel version for MPC750/MPC7400


Dan Malek wrote:

quoted

You shouldn't be using 2.2.15 with 8xx.  I am not going to discuss
the history right now, but the only reliable verion of 2.2.xx Linux
is the 2.2.13 version on the MontaVista Web site (www.mvista.com).

How about on an embedded MPC750 or MPC7400? Before joining this
list I discovered Kernel version 2.2.15 on Yellowdog and have been
using that. I have made a dozen or so small mods to the kernel to
get it to run on our boards, and have seen no problems, so far....
There are zillions of references to CONFIG_8xx throughout the source.

	These boards are essentially embedded supercomputers;
	the only devices they have are the drivers I wrote, which
	use memory buffers to/from the host PCI as a 'serial'
	console and a network interface.


Tom Roberts	tjroberts@lucent.com

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