Re: IDT RC3233x support?

[David Maxwell <david.maxwell%idt.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:36:22PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> pcw%mesanet.com@localhost (Peter C. Wallace) asked;
> > ~2 years ago there was some mention about possible support for these chips.
> > Has anything changed? Would I be better off with a TX3927? (cheaper but lack
> > of JTAG is painfull...)
> 
> So far there is no effort made on NetBSD code repositry as long as I know.
> IDT's RC3233x is pretty close to MIPS32 definition (look-like proto-MIPS32 or
> something) and NetBSD already has one of genuine MIPS32 processor support
> (AMD/Alchemy Au1xxx), then there would be little trouble to run RC3233x
> processor, I guess (possible pitfall may be cache writethru/writeback design
> twist).

I'm going to see about obtaining an evaluation board for testing.

I expect the changes should be pretty minumal, as Toru says.

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