[j-nsp] MX80 L2TP Functions

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:13:41AM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> Not "that" poor, it's a 1.2GHz PowerPC, which is roughly the performance
> of a p4 3GHz. I haven't looked at it in detail yet, but I'd say odds are
> good its the exact same integrated CPU/RE that is used on the EX8200 RE
> (which is also the same cpu that is used on the original MX DPCs). On
> the EX RE the ram and flash are not expandable, so you may be SOL there. 

Ok I have some details... The EX8200 RE is a Freescale e500v2 MPC8548
1.2GHz single core cpu, the MX80 RE uses an MPC8572 1.3GHz which is a
dual core cpu. Note that this has no relationship to the old MX base
level RE-1300, which was an Intel Celeron 1.3GHz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerQUICC#PowerQUICC_III

It looks like they're only using a single core currently, but color me
hopeful that they'll enable the second core in a future software release
(my guess is they don't have their ppc code fully supported or tested
for SMP yet). When 10.2 came out I remember seeing a mention somewhere
in the release notes about support for upcoming dual and quad core RE's
(classic Intel it looked like), but I can't seem to find the reference
now, so maybe they removed it. :)

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