Can software discover MPC8xx variant?

[Steven Blakeslee]

I'm guessing you've never worked with a contract manufacturer.  :) jk

-----Original Message-----
From: Leonardo Pereira Santos [mailto:lsantos at pd3.com.br]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:15 PM
To: Steven Blakeslee
Cc: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Can software discover MPC8xx variant?



Ok, but in this case the hardware itself wouldn't know waht revision or
whatever it is. And they already have to change the processor, so you have
to
change the hardware anyway, mount or not a few resistors shouldn't be hard.

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 15:02, you wrote:
> Or you could set it in some type of data structure in your bootloader.  No
> hardware change this way.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonardo Pereira Santos [mailto:lsantos at pd3.com.br]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:30 AM
> To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
> Subject: Re: Can software discover MPC8xx variant?
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> As the 8xx family is supported by the kernel, I assume that what you want
> is to know if the 8xx processor running supports some feature? If this is
> the case, I can tell you how to do it the way I'd.
> You can define some ioport with pull-up and pool-down resistors and in the
> manufacturing process specifiy if this board is for product A, then you
> should use MPC850DSL and you will mount some of the pull-ups and
> pull-downs. If the board is for product B, then you should mount MPC850SAR
> and mount differently the pull-ups and downs. By reading the value on the
> selected pins, you might de able to know what board this is. This scheme
> can also be used to know what hardware revision your board have.
>
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:13, Marius Groeger wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Alex Zeffertt wrote:
> > > Can anybody tell me if there is a way to identify which processor from
> > > the MPC8xx family software is running on.  I hoped I could use the
IMMR
> > > special purpose register.  However, this only tells you the silicon
> > > revision, which can have the same value even if the processors are
> > > different!
> > >
> > > Does the processor type (e.g. 862, 857T, 857DSL) reside anywhere in
the
> > > processor?
> >
> > U-Boot/PPCboots cpu/mpc8xx/cpu.c contains a lot of generic type
> > detection code, but even there the assumes that the basic type is
> > known at compile time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marius
>
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