Re: Suitable chipset for a pocket linux box
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:38:34 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Claude Robitaille wrote:
> > Or the ColdFire serie, again from Motorola. They just announced a new
> > version, the MCF5307 which has cache, 2 serial port, DRAM controler,
> > IO, debug port, some internal ram, timer, etc. It is cheap (15-20$) and
> > very performant for the price (70 MIPS). Finally, GNU C compiler is
> > ported.
> >
> > The ColdFire serie a basically a 68000 with some instructions removed to
> > make the chip much smaller and much more performant (like 20X for
> > the 5307).
>
> The worst thing is they removed the MMU :-(
Of course I meant: compared to the real m68k, not the plain 68000 (which
doesn't have a MMU neither).
Greetings,
Geert
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium