Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
own hardware.
I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
little something back.
The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
storeroom purgatory.
jeff
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:13 -0700, Jeff Mock wrote:
Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
own hardware.
I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
little something back.
Well, the ocotea has an interesting "feature" related to the way the
ethernet PHY an EMAC interact which I haven't dealt with in the new EMAC
driver at this stage.
I -think- the Taishan I have may have the same issue though, in which
case I won't need it, but if not, I could have good use (or Josh in
Rochester) for one of these.
The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
storeroom purgatory.
jeff
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt [off-list ref] wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:13 -0700, Jeff Mock wrote:
quoted
Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
own hardware.
I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
little something back.
Well, the ocotea has an interesting "feature" related to the way the
ethernet PHY an EMAC interact which I haven't dealt with in the new EMAC
driver at this stage.
I -think- the Taishan I have may have the same issue though, in which
case I won't need it, but if not, I could have good use (or Josh in
Rochester) for one of these.
Hardware is always welcome. I actually care about 4xx so if Ben
doesn't want it then I'm sure I could find a good home...
josh
Thanks for all of the replies, it's nice to hear that the 440GX isn't
obsolete yet... A relatively arbitrary decision, but I'm going to send
the Ocotea board to Josh.
jeff
Jeff Mock wrote:
Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on the
Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto our
own hardware.
I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give a
little something back.
The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
storeroom purgatory.
jeff
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The AMCC 440GX processor is by no means obsolete. There are more
customers for this processor every month. There is a new, comprehensive
evaluation kit called "Taishan"
(http://www.amcc.com/Embedded/evalkits/440GX_PB_1_04.pdf), which AMCC
provides to customers and partners. "Ocotea" is a board that was
originally designed and used for processor validation purposes.
Regards,
Charlie
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Subject: Re: Ocotea board?
Thanks for all of the replies, it's nice to hear that the 440GX isn't=20
obsolete yet... A relatively arbitrary decision, but I'm going to send
the Ocotea board to Josh.
jeff
Jeff Mock wrote:
Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on=20
the Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto
our own hardware.
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I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I=20
would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give
a little something back.
=20
The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just=20
powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now=20
has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
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Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in=20
storeroom purgatory.
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jeff
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Well, I suppose that it was really just a little poke to see if anyone
from AMCC reads the mailing list :) No offense intended.
The 440GX worked out great for my project, a new spectrometer for the
radio telescope in Arecibo. There are 14 of these boxes running in
parallel at the telescope. We got good performance out of the 440GX in
all respects with no major hangups during development.
jeff
Charlie Ashton wrote:
The AMCC 440GX processor is by no means obsolete. There are more
customers for this processor every month. There is a new, comprehensive
evaluation kit called "Taishan"
(http://www.amcc.com/Embedded/evalkits/440GX_PB_1_04.pdf), which AMCC
provides to customers and partners. "Ocotea" is a board that was
originally designed and used for processor validation purposes.
Regards,
Charlie
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Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Ocotea board?
Thanks for all of the replies, it's nice to hear that the 440GX isn't
obsolete yet... A relatively arbitrary decision, but I'm going to send
the Ocotea board to Josh.
jeff
Jeff Mock wrote:
quoted
Is the Ocotea board (the original 440GX eval board) still interesting?
quoted
I'm wrapping up a project using the 440GX, I started out hacking on
the Ocotea board to get started, but we moved off Ocotea long ago onto
quoted
our own hardware.
I'm cleaning up the lab now that the project is nearly finished and I
would like to give the board to someone that will put it to good use.
I've sponged off this mailing list quite a lot, it's about time I give
quoted
a little something back.
The board has been hacked a little bit but still works fine. I just
powered it up and it happily booted Linux via TFTP. The boot ROM now
has u-boot, the original PIBs (or whatever) is long gone. All I ask is
quoted
that you're self-sufficient and don't bug me too much about it...
Can someone recommend a good home? Otherwise it will wind up in
storeroom purgatory.
jeff
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