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Re: PowerPCSPE port status



On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:18:14PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> I am getting mails from time to time "how can I help with the port I need new
> packages" or something like that but after I tell what there is to do I don't
> hear anything anymore. P2020 is still used in new designs and I don't know if
> still FSL recommends it. The successor CPUs in this category (post P2020 that
> is P2041, P4xxx, …) have the e500mc core (instead of e500) which supports the
> "normal" FPU which can not make use of the port.
> 
> If you need to space and nobody is stepping up to maintain the port then I
> guess nobody will complain :)

It certainly seems all new designs are being done with the e500mc instead
of the e500.  I know they still push the e500 designs to customers.
We had a visit where I work recently from a freescale representative,
and he showed us a bunch of them and what was coming.  When asked what
we were looking for we told him that we won't touch the e500 based chips
at all because they are not standard powerpc compatible.  We like being
able to use an IBM p710 as a native build machine, and the powerpcspe
has no fast machines at all that you can build natively on and there
probably never will be.

But yes freescale still pushes them I just don't get the impression they
are likely to really make any new designs with that core, so powerpcspe
will never be a large installation base.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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