Thank you for that piece of info, Scott! May I expand the question one bit, and ask whether the user-mode binaries compiled for the e300 will generally work for the e500 -- or, vice versa? Is one choice safer than the other?
I know for sure that we take a big hit on floating-point ops, but are there other things I am not considering? -- Johns On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Scott Wood <scottw...@freescale.com>wrote: > Johns Daniel wrote: > >> Is it possible -- and prudent -- to use a single kernel binary image >> for two similar boards, one based on an e300 core and the other on an >> e500v2 core? >> > > No, it is not possible. They use different MMUs, and the kernel does not > support choosing between them at runtime. > > I was surprised to see that the e500v2-targeted toolchain did build >> the kernel for the e300 board just fine. Don't know whether this will >> always be true? >> > > "always" is a strong word, but it should generally work. > > -Scott > >
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