Subject: Re: m68k port to coldfire mcf54xx
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
List: port-m68k
Date: 06/07/2005 14:16:18
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 00:14, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> unfortunately this isn't a new port announcement.  I just thought I'd
> remind 68k hackers out there that most (all?) of the v4 coldfire cores
> have MMUs on them, which I assume makes porting NetBSD a feasable
> project.

I looked into this on behalf of my employer some time last year. The MMU 
will need a new pmap, as it's basically just a software-managed TLB 
(though maybe the TLB miss handler could be made to walk regular 68k 
page tables). The other differences are easy enough to support.

Given the right hardware, a port won't be difficult.

Cheers, Steve