kernel for 823 over 16bits

Dan Malek dan at mvista.com
Fri Oct 20 13:20:47 EST 2000


Tomas Carmen wrote:

> I would like to know if the linux kernel or the bootloader developed for
> PPC (MPC8xx) can working well
> over a 16 bits environment (FLASH and RAM).

You mean you are just using a 16-bit data bus?  Kind of weird, but
the software doesn't care.  Make sure you run with caches on and
make sure you are careful of multiword cycles when accessing I/O
in 32-bit operations.


	-- Dan

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