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Re: Lexar 4189 support
"Andrew Dyer" <adyer@righthandtech.com> writes:
> I believe "Bhaskar" is suffering from dyslexia (and a tendency to
> spam multiple mailing lists and newsgroups with the same question).
>
> What he/she's most likely asking about is a lexRA (not lexAR) 4189
> which is pretty close to a MIPS. Lexra sold RTL soft cores
> for integration into asics and eventually was bought by MIPS.
Ah, yes, that makes sense. Perhaps Google should have a "dyslexia"
button that looks for likely misspellings :-)
>
> IIRC Lexra's first parts were basically MIPS I compatible (minus
> the LWL/LWR/SWL/SWR instructions) and changes to the memory management.
> I don't know about the state of gcc for lexra.
MontaVista list it as a suported MIPS variant. This implies that it is
supported in the toolchain, but since it seems to be an obsolete part,
that support may be gathering dust. Within eCos I would expect to
simply treat it as just another MIPS variant.
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