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Linux Ported to ColdFire 22

iKON writes "Moreton Bay has ported linux to Motorola's ColdFire processer. " You can visit the porting projects page here for more information too.
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Linux Ported to ColdFire

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  • Actually this was done a while ago. If you are after a more real-time solution than linux can give then have a look at RTEMS.

    http://www.oarcorp.com has the scoop on getting RTEMS

    a Board Support Package(i.e. drivers, startup code, etc) can be found at my web page

    http://www.calm.hw.ac.uk/davidf/coldfire/
  • If somebody packages one of these in a modem-sized box with some memory, ethernet, perrallel, and serial port, I'll buy a fiew.


    The cost should be under $200 (the chip is less than $20) and they'd make great print servers and fax servers.


  • I was hoping I could use those boards for something. EDN ran an ad about a year and a half ago where you could get them, a trial compiler and tools for $100USD. I bought three.

    Now they run Linux. I modified the one to run an MDA (they did not bring the MEMR/ MEMW/ lines to the ISA bus) and they'll run a standard ethernet card. I'm happy now. Very happy.

    Just another time-killer to add to my ever-increasing pile of tech goodies. :-)
  • On what kind of Hardware does this port runs On ?

    Is there a gcc that knows anything on the Coldfire ? or is it just raw 68k emulation provided by the Coldfire ?


    Ludo
  • I want to know when we'll be seing laptops runnng one of these cool low power off shoot CPUs and LINUX ...
  • apparently all that was important for this individual was that 'First comment'. People can
    be so outrageously stupid sometimes.

  • Here's a link to information on the ColdFire [mot.com] processor. It's basically a 68K core targeted at the embedded market.
  • I wouldn't call anything capable of running Linux, let alone a full 32-bit CPU, "low end". This is quite a decent processor in any of its iterations.

    But, CPUs like these hit a sweet spot for embedded developers who look for:

    low power consumption
    low part price - enough MIPs for a specific app
    low price to build a system using said part
    high reliability (would you really use something with the Pentium's instruction set and architecture in a medical application?)

    -t.
  • I don't know what Coldfire is either, but finally there's something with a lower BogoMIPS count than my computers ;-)
    TA
  • For those interested in micro controller Linux check out the uClinux home page [ryerson.ca] from which the uClinux/Coldfire project was derived. Work is being done to bring the cold fire patchs back into the main tree of uClinux [mailto] as we speak. Great work guys!

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