Freescale 8541 support

[Kumar Gala]

On Nov 23, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Dan Wilson wrote:

> On 11/23/2005 at 9:51 AM Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> If I'm not mistaken the Denx kernel is based on 2.6.14. This should
>> have support for the MPC8541.  Realize that the differences between
>> MPC8540 and MPC8541/55 are minor.  Is there something specific on
>> MPC8541 your looking for.
>>
>> - kumar
>
> Thanks for the reply!  Unfortunately, I am constrained to use the  
> 2.4 kernel by another software package that I have to use, which  
> doesn't yet support 2.6.  It appears to me that the 8541/8555  
> support was put into 2.6 and never back-ported to 2.4.  I'll take a  
> look at the manuals today and compare the 8540 to the 8541: perhaps  
> I can live with the 8540 support that does appear to be in the 2.4  
> kernel.  If not, hopefully the porting job won't be very difficult.

I believe the linuxppc-dev 2.4 tree had support for the MPC8541/55.

- kumar