Re: Old platforms: bring out your dead

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Mon Jan 11 2021 - 04:26:56 EST


Hi Geert!

On 1/11/21 10:20 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Sounds interesting. Do these SoCs come with an MMU? And do they use the
>> ColdFire instruction set or do they run plain 68k code?
>
> No MMU, plain m68k code.
>
> 68328 Soc = 68000 core + some peripherals,
> 68360 SoC = CPU32 core (based on 68020 + some peripherals.

OK, I guess that would be useful for the NoMMU Linux port.

> Anyone working on integrating m68k (and SPARC and MIPS?) softcores in
> LiteX? ;-)

I'm personally waiting for the Vampire to gain support for the real 68851
as the hardware in general looks very attractive [1].

Adrian

> {1] https://retromodsblog.wordpress.com/2020/01/28/a-look-at-the-vampire-v4-stand-alone-fpga-first-impressions/

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