Re: [Qemu-devel] support for Freescale MPC8xx (850/860) processors/platforms

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 15:57 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Anyone working on Freescale MPC8xx (embedded PowerPC) processors ??
> > 
> > I'm trying to ascertain if the MPC8xx (MPC850) processors are
> > supported, and if not, how much effort would be required to get it
> > working.
> > 
> 
> 
> I'm not aware of anyone working on MPC8xx CPU support. In fact, I
> don't really know what they look like - I guess they're 601 derived? 
> 
> Ben, any idea how much different 8xx is? 

Gothic horrors :-)

They have an MMU of their own. SW loaded TLB but different from anything
else. They have a lot of other "quirks" too.

Cheers,
Ben.