FSL vs. IBM BookE

[Josh Boyer]

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 20:21 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Out of curiosity... I noticed we have both head_44x.S and
> head_fsl_booke.S, the later being a fork of the former with changed from
> Kumar (and possibly others) to support E200 and E500.
> 
> How bad are the differences between those cores ? Would it be possible
> to reconcile those and IBM 44x into a single processor family ? Or are
> there some fundamental differences making that impossible ? (even with a
> bit of CPU feature patching).

I'm not sure.  Maybe Kumar knows better since he made the changes to
head_fsl_booke.S.  I believe FSL can do SMP and has an SPE and some
other HID registers that 44x does not have.

> 
> Also, I suppose we should rename head_4xx.S to head_40x.S no ?

That would be fine with me.  I can send a patch if you'd like.

josh