Support for Freescale QorIQ T2080 and T4240

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
Tue Dec 16 09:30:01 UTC 2014


On 16/12/14 01:50, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 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?
>

No, this is a problem for the application designer.

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