From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A65E975.C1D4D917@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:50:29 -0500 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Monkman CC: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 8260 Development tools References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Jay Monkman wrote: > Is there a better eval board than EST's SBC8260? Check out Cogent Computer systems (www.cogcomp.com). > I may end up with an EST VisionICE II debugger. Has anyone used it > with GDB? Or use the software that comes with it for debugging? You won't be happy with it for Linux. > Would Abatron's BDI-2000 be better? Absolutely. It is Linux-aware and works very well. > Is 2MB FLASH and 8 MB RAM still the recommended minimum? Probably. If you can find that little memory any more. Most 82xx have at least 16 MB RAM, typical is 64 MB. > Are there any gotcha's I should watch out for? Lots, I suppose, depending upon your experience with either 8260 or Linux. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/