mpc8xx linux maintenance

[David Ho]

Please don't mind correcting me on what I said here.  I would love to hear
some feedback from the community, and possibly the folks at Motorola,
Timesys, Montavista.

Regards,

David Ho
Nanometrics, Inc


>
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering, do we have a person from Motorola or a well known
embedded
> linux company that actively ensures the operation of the Linux kernel on
> mpc8xx, 2.6 in particular?
>
> I noticed that is a lot of work being done by Montavista on the IBM
PowerPC
> chips and Timesys is working heavily on the Motorola 82xx for the 2.6
> kernel.  But not that much noise is made from these companies in regard
to
> the mpc8xx.  Should this be a concern?
>
> Wolfgeng mentioned in his interview with Linux Device (
> http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2240586951.html) that 2.6 may be slow,
> but if there are so many 2.6 features that are beneficial to embedded
> development (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7477), why is
> mpc8xx , as I see it, being somewhat left behind.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Ho
> Nanometrics, Inc
>
>
>


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