Status of phycore_mpc5554 with latest RTEMS

[Peter Dufault]

On Feb 14, 2014, at 09:46 , Peter Dufault <dufault at hda.com> wrote:

> I'm running on real hardware.  I didn't think the simulators supported the SPE (Signal Processing Extension) instructions, but I might be wrong, I just googled it and found this for QEMU for 2007:
> 
> Log message:
>        PowerPC 2.03 SPE extension - first pass.
> 
> It won't help with my code, but maybe I can try running the tests with QEMU.  If anyone has QEMU and is familiar with it you can check and see how complete the support seems to be.

It doesn't look good.  A little more googling and I found this.  The MPC5554 uses the e500 processor core.

https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/target-ppc/STATUS

PowerPC e500: (not implemented)
INSN  KO
SPR   KO
MSR   KO
IRQ   KO
MMU   KO
EXCP  KO

Peter
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Peter Dufault
HD Associates, Inc.      Software and System Engineering