> Thanked you so much for?

Yes, there:
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7183&forum=3&post_id=82274#82274

> Until you referenced this, I hadn't been able to get anything like it out of Freescale.

You mean they started giving you more information because they became aware that you had become aware of that link? Or was it just coincidence?

> between what you've dug up and what they've recently divulged we have
> a better idea of how the P5 processor handle SerDes configuration and what
> available options there are.

To be precise, we did know the options from the link I dug up already. The new information from Freescale was that those 29 ready-made configurations are really the only configurations available and that there's no way to create an own configuration.

> Considering the Freescale has not lifted the NDA on these products
> I think your contribution to this was pretty significant.

I think we should thank Freescale's Kumar Gala for this as he posted those information in January to a public mailing list for the whole world to read ;-)

> they've got a conference scheduled (I think for June) during which one of the
> topics to be covered will be porting Linux to the P5

Yes, the annual Freescale Technology Forum. The titles of this year's technical sessions have already been published:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?code=FTF_2011_AMERICA_SESSIONS_CAT

From the 'Networking' tab:

"QorIQ P5020DS Processor: Overcome the Challenges in Porting U-Boot and Linux Operating System"

And also interesting:

"Using Freescale's AltiVec SIMD Engine for Graphics, Image Processing, Radar, Video Surveillance and Other Applications"

They didn't have sessions on AltiVec for some years. I guess this is going to be a foretaste of AltiVec-enabled QorIQ T.

> so my guess is that they haven't completed this yet

I think they may have, but they surely wouldn't antedate the FTF just because of this ;-)

> You brought this up before many were even aware of it.

Actually, I became aware of the e5500 only some hours before it was officially announced in June 2010 by Freescale, while public sources had been (unnoticed by me) mentioning it as 'e500mc64' since November 2009 at least. The P5020 was even explicitely mentioned in August 2009 already (but not revealed as being 64-bit back then).

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6313&forum=11&post_id=72666#72666
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6313&forum=11&post_id=74067#74067
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7001&forum=3&post_id=74074#74074

So you see, I was rather late to that party ;-)

> both you and Varisys' staff, started pointing to the QorIQ platform
> at about the same time.

I don't know when Varisys started pointing to the QorIQ, but I started in January 2009:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6196&forum=11&post_id=61505#61505

And as you can see, not in a too favourable way back then ;-) February 2009 was when I began to see the suitability of QorIQ somewhat:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6196&forum=11&post_id=62074#62074