Debian on MPC8572DS

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:01:53PM +0200, Isaac Gomez Morales wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get a Linux distro such as Debian in the following system
> 
> System:
> mpc8572ds HW

The 8572 does not have classic PowerPC floating point.  The Debian
binaries use this, so they cannot run without emulation.

Emulation is slow, so you probably want something like this instead:
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.ports.powerpc/browse_thread/thread/235607517fd7ae1e/f4638a2cdef09bf7?lnk=raot
http://download.breakpoint.cc/debian/linutronix-lenny-gnuspe/

-Scott