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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:26:09PM -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > IBM's PowerNP chip was also very simmilar (a powerpc core with lots of > hardware assists for DMA and packet inspection in the extended register > area). Don't know if they still sell it, but at one time I had heard > they had booted linux on it. Well, yes, PowerNP support has been in the kernel for years and embedded Linux distros like Mvista support them. It's no longer an IBM chip, though. AMCC purchased the PPC4xx network processors (PowerNP) from IBM and later purchased the entire standard SoC PPC4xx product line from IBM. That is, except for the PPC4xx STB chips like are found in the Hauppage MediaMVP, IBM retained those. AMCC pretty much owns all the PPC4xx line and PowerNP 405H/L are still available. -Matt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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