mpc8xx linux maintenance

[David Ho]

Hi all,

Just wondering, do we have a person from Motorola or a well known embedded
linux company that actively ensures the operation of the Linux kernel on
mpc8xx, 2.6 in particular?

I noticed that is a lot of work being done by Montavista on the IBM PowerPC
chips and Timesys is working heavily on the Motorola 82xx for the 2.6
kernel.  But not that much noise is made from these companies in regard to
the mpc8xx.  Should this be a concern?

Wolfgeng mentioned in his interview with Linux Device (
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2240586951.html) that 2.6 may be slow,
but if there are so many 2.6 features that are beneficial to embedded
development (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7477), why is
mpc8xx , as I see it, being somewhat left behind.

Regards,

David Ho
Nanometrics, Inc


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