freescale 8xx: which architecture to use ? ppc - powerpc ?

Vitaly Bordug vbordug at ru.mvista.com
Tue Mar 28 00:55:04 EST 2006


On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:20:19 +0200
Josef Angermeier <Josef.Angermeier at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> i want to run linux (2.6.15) on my MPC875 board. I wonder which 
> architecture to choose:  "powerpc" or "ppc" ? - menuconfig shows a 
> "freescale 8xx" option when used with "powerpc", and a "8xx" option when 
> used with ARCH=ppc. Because i use a embedded freescale 8xx i wanted to 
> use the "powerpc" architecture. BUT: i seems to be unstable, i got some 
> undefined referencies. Or am i wrong ?
You should use ppc for now. Work to move the 8xx stuff to the powerpc is ongoing, but quite far from complete state as you see...

> 
> thanks
> Josef
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Sincerely, 
Vitaly



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