April 10, 2008 -- Timesys Corp. today announced LinuxLink support for the Freescale MPC8572 PowerQUICC III multi-core processor. LinuxLink for the MPC8572 includes integrated support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), which balances the tasks performed by the multiple processing cores to improve performance.
With this LinuxLink, subscribers will get web-based access to a Linux platform that has been configured to operate in SMP mode for the MPC8572, including a 2.6.23 Linux kernel, toolchain and hundreds of pre-compiled packages. Additionally, subscribers will have access to TimeStorm development tools, web-based support and a vast suite of documentation to customize and test their embedded Linux platform for a given application.
