Support for Freescale QorIQ T2080 and T4240

[Joel Sherrill]

On 12/15/2014 6:22 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we work currently on a BSP for the Freescale QorIQ T2080 and T4240 
> chips.  The T4240 is a 12 core PowerPC supporting 24 virtual cores (two 
> virtual cores share a FPU and AltiVec unit).  These chips use the e6500 
> core which supports the 64-bit PowerPC instruction set. We will only use 
> the 32-bit mode.
>
The sharing of the FPU and Altivec is similar to the AMD Bulldozer. Is
this something
that RTEMS has to care about?

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