Linux port for the 440EP processor

Hi Eugene,

I am need of 440EP Processor based Linux port.
I have some questions for what I am not sure of the answers I have.

Does 440EP processor come under 4xx type?
Is there a central repository for Linux distributions for 440 series?
Are there any tools, help Documents that can help build Linux
distribution for the 440EP Processor?
In "Linux for PowerPC Embedded Systems HOWTO" Document, the Target
Hardware's 4xx series points to some site addr & I didn't find any 440
processor support there?=20

Do I have access to the working 440GP & 440GX in both 2.4 & 2.6
developed by u? where can I find them?

Thanks for the support in advance.

Regards,
Mukund jampala

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From: linuxppc-embedded-bounces@ozlabs.org [mailto:linuxppc-embedded-
bounces@ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of Eugene Surovegin
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:58 AM
To: Rick McBain
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux port for the AMCC (was IBM) 440EP
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:17:27PM -0800, Rick McBain wrote:

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Does anybody have a working distribution for the 440EP? We were

planning

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to use a Timesys port, but we've now been told it doesn't exist

(after

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months of promises it did.).  Our other option is to pay US$25K to
MontaVista, but that seems a tad pricey, and our previous experience
with them is that they delivered us an ARM port which fundamentally
didn't work.

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Just FYI, 44x port was made by MontaVista.
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Try the following exercise, grep the kernel code and see how much was
written for PPC by Timesys and then make your decision.
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FWIW, it should be relatively simple to do 440EP port, we already
have working 440GP & 440GX in both 2.4 & 2.6.
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:36:44AM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote:

Does 440EP processor come under 4xx type?

Yes. But AFAIK 440EP port isn't available publicly, yet.

Is there a central repository for Linux distributions for 440 series?

440 isn't something special, currently all 2.6 work is done in 
kernel.org tree. For more info, see http://penguinppc.org/kernel/

Are there any tools, help Documents that can help build Linux
distribution for the 440EP Processor?
In "Linux for PowerPC Embedded Systems HOWTO" Document, the Target
Hardware's 4xx series points to some site addr & I didn't find any 440
processor support there? 

Do I have access to the working 440GP & 440GX in both 2.4 & 2.6
developed by u? where can I find them?

You can consider MontaVista Linux (www.mvista.com). Currently they 
support 440GP & 440GX. You can also take a look at www.denx.de, 
although I have no idea how good is 44x support they provide.

--
Eugene