PPC eval board

I googled this group and the web and haven't found what I'm looking for.

Basically I want a PPC board [like a PPC405, something that runs the basic 32-bit ISA] where I can upload programs [usually

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Tom St Denis
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There is a post by /Rob/ on comp.os.linux.embedded who is offerring some used PPC hardware for sale.. try it.

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Prafulla Harpanhalli
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Prafulla Harpanhalli

Why not get a used Mac? You can probably get one of the original day-glo iMacs for under $200 (I don't know if those will run OSX though, you might be stuck with OS9).

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robertwessel2

Although it isn't advertised, the OpenWatcom development version has some very limited PPC support: assembler (called wasppc), C compiler ( wccppc) and compile/link (wclppc), plus the capability to do remote debugging (don't know off-hand which links are supported for that). You can cross compiler from OS/2 and Win32, some tools are available from DOS as well. No C libraries as yet I think but if you're doing assembler you won't need them. You'll need the latest daily sources and build the lot (about 5 hours on a 400 MHz machine), but you only need to do this once. If you need more info go to the user group at news.openwatcom.org.

Mat Nieuwenhoven

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Mat Nieuwenhoven

Understood, but your initial post didn't mention Linux, just GCC. OpenWatcom isn't proprietary, it's open source (was made open source 4 years ago or so). It runs on Dos, OS/2, Win32 and Linux (not all tools yet, no graphical ones), and produces code (can cross-compile) for all those as well (Linux no multithreading or graphical stuff). Its debugger is way ahead of gdb. As Watcom's Linux-hosted ppc tool I only see the ppc assembler, probably linker works as well; but if you need to have a gcc lib it's not gonna work. Anyway, good luck with your project, I'm using PICs myself (privately).

Mat Nieuwenhoven

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Mat Nieuwenhoven

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