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PowerPC emulation status. |
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The goal of this file is to provide a reference status to avoid regressions. |
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PowerPC core emulation status |
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PowerPC CPU known to work (ie booting at least Linux 2.4): |
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* main stream PowerPC cores |
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- PowerPC 603 & derivatives |
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- PowerPC 604 & derivatives |
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- PowerPC 740 & derivatives |
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- PowerPC 750 & derivatives |
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- PowerPC 405 |
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PowerPC that should work but are not supported by standard Linux kernel |
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(then remain mostly untested) |
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- PowerPC 745 |
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- PowerPC 755 |
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Work in progress: |
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* embedded PowerPC cores |
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- BookE PowerPC |
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- e500 core (Freescale PowerQUICC) |
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* main stream PowerPC cores |
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- PowerPC 601 |
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- PowerPC 602 |
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TODO: |
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* embedded PowerPC cores |
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- PowerPC 401 |
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- PowerPC 403 |
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- PowerPC 440 |
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- PowerPC 460 |
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* main stream PowerPC cores |
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- PowerPC 7400 (aka G4) |
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- PowerPC 7410 |
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- PowerPC 7450 |
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- PowerPC 7455 |
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- PowerPC 7457 |
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- PowerPC 7457A |
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* original POWER |
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- POWER |
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- POWER2 |
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* 64 bits PowerPC cores |
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- PowerPC 620 |
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- PowerPC 630 (aka POWER3) |
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- PowerPC 631 (aka POWER3+) |
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- POWER4 |
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- POWER4+ |
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- POWER5 |
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- POWER5+ |
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- PowerPC 970 |
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* RS64 series |
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- RS64 |
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- RS64-II |
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- RS64-III |
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- RS64-IV |
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PowerPC microcontrollers emulation status |
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Implemementation should be sufficient to boot Linux: |
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- PowerPC 405CR |
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- PowerPC 405EP |
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TODO: |
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- More PowerPC 40x microcontrollers emulation |
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- PowerQUICC microcontrollers emulation |
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PowerPC based platforms emulation status |
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* PREP platform (RS/6000 7043...) - TO BE CHECKED (broken) |
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- Gentoo Linux live CDROM 1.4 |
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- Debian Linux 3.0 |
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- Mandrake Linux 9 |
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* heathrow PowerMac platform (beige PowerMac) - TO BE CHECKED (broken) |
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- Gentoo Linux live CDROM 1.4 |
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- Debian Linux 3.0 |
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- Mandrake Linux 9 |
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* mac99 platform (white and blue PowerMac, ...) |
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- Gentoo Linux live CDROM 1.4 - boots, compiles linux kernel |
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- Debian Linux woody - boots from CDROM and HDD |
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- Mandrake Linux 9 - boots from CDROM, freezes during install |
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- Knoppix 2003-07-13_4 boots from CDROM, pb with X configuration |
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distribution bug: X runs with a properly hand-coded configuration. |
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- rock Linux 2.0 runs from CDROM |
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* Linux 2.6 support seems deadly broken (used to boot...). |
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* PowerPC 405EP reference boards: |
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- can boot Linux 2.4 & 2.6. |
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Need to provide a flash image ready to boot for reproductible tests. |
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TODO: |
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- MCA based RS/6000 emulation |
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- CHRP emulation (not PowerMac) |
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- PPAR emulation |
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- ePPAR emulation |
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- misc PowerPC reference boards emulation |
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(to be completed) |