CPCI-405 port (PPC405GP)
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Sat Sep 29 17:53:46 EST 2001
Hi Dan,
in message <3BAEB761.194CE057 at mvista.com> you wrote:
>
> > There are 50+ boards using the PPCBoot concept by now, and the number
> > is growing every week.
>
> Yeah, but there are lots more that don't use it, and people want to
> just pull those boards off the shelf and have those work as well.
> Quite frankly PPCboot is pretty good on 8xx, but not many of the other
> boards where people want to run Linux.
Just for the record: the last state I know of (I haven't looked into
this for about two weeks) is:
8xx - 32 boards
8240 - 3 boards
8260 - 7 boards
74xx - 1 board
4xx - 9 boards
PPCBoot is more than just 8xx by today.
> Remember, PPCboot started from code I wrote long ago. It doesn't
> look much like it anymore, but I still have a personal interest
> in it's success :-).
That's good to know.
Wolfgang Denk
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