Linux Ported to ColdFire

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

RTEMS ported to ColdFire

[Dave Fiddes]

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/

Build me one!

[Ami Ganguli]

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.

Ooooh, I want one of these!

[mholve]

Hehehe. :)

suh-mooooooooooooooooooooth

[tzanger]

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. :-)

Hardware ?

[Tsk]

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

Imagine the Beowulf I could make!

[ed_the_unready]

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What the heck is coldfire anyway

[cthonious]

I want to know when we'll be seing laptops runnng one of these cool low power off shoot CPUs and LINUX ...

No Subject Given

[rcooper]

apparently all that was important for this individual was that 'First comment'. People can
be so outrageously stupid sometimes.

Information about the ColdFire

[Mark Evans]

Here's a link to information on the ColdFire [mot.com] processor. It's basically a 68K core targeted at the embedded market.

3.27 BogoMIPS

[rabbit]

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.

3.27 BogoMIPS

[TA]

I don't know what Coldfire is either, but finally there's something with a lower BogoMIPS count than my computers ;-)
TA

Derived from uClinux

[mdurrant]

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!