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Linux To Gain Another Chip Family

Posted by timothy on from the assimilation-nation dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Freescale will unveil the first ColdFire processors ever to include a memory management unit (MMU), and therefore able to run full-scale Linux, this week at the Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif. The chips cost $17 - $25, and are used mostly in industrial control and factory automation. Simultaneously, Freescale tools subsidiary Metrowerks announced plans to offer Linux development tools for Coldfire chips, which previously had been restricted to running uClinux due to the lack of an MMU."

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  1. on chip stuff by baryon351 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Other key features of the new MCF547x and MCF548x ColdFire processors include on-chip FPU and eMAC

    Dammit apple, I just bought a brand new eMac only months ago, and now they're putting them on-chip for under $30!

  2. Re:ColdFire is *already* supported in Linux by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
    That was put there for 68ks such as the 68EC060 which had no MMU, not coldfire

    Yeah! Way to serve the guy who wrote the support for the earlier ColdFire chips! Greg was obviously talking out his ass and doesn't know anything about the code he wrote. IT'S ON!

    /*
    * crt0_ram.S -- startup code for MCF5206 ColdFire Arnewsh board.
    *
    * (C) Copyright 1999-2002, Greg Ungerer (gerg@snapgear.com).
    *
    --
    Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.