From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Reply-To: From: "Tom Curran" To: Subject: RE: On the MPC85xx development boards Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:40:00 -0700 Message-ID: <000601c45a12$469704f0$6601a8c0@curranusi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" In-Reply-To: <1088085327022.mikko.alutoin.17388.vROgRbiXwfx6jgnkf5FAxQ@luukku.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: You might also want to check out Artis Microsystems for MPC85xx devel boards: http://www.artismicro.com/ --Tom -----Original Message----- From: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org [mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf Of Mikko Alutoin Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:55 AM To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: On the MPC85xx development boards Hi folks! I would be happy to receive some comments on pros & cons of different development boards for MPC85xx cause I'm in the process of selecting one. The final design will be using MPC8560 to implement a 1 Gbps Ethernet card for a router. ATM support will be needed later on. The development environment includes a Linux PC and Abatron BDI2000 emulator. Here are the boards that I am aware of: 1) MPC8560ADS by Motorola 2) CW8540DSEVAL by Motorola 3) SBC8560 by Windriver 4) Silicon Tx GP3 8560 5) MPC8540 RDK by GDATech Are these boards all there is? I am under the impression that 1, 2, 4 and 5 (but not 3) come with a Linux BSP included? Is this correct? Being the lazy person that I am, I'm trying to minimize the work to get Linux up and running on the board. I wonder which board/package gives me least headache? Are there any pitfalls that I should know about? Let us assume that the final product will not be based on a commercial Embedded Linux distro, but a custom 2.6 kernel with busybox & uclibc. Should that effect the choice in any way? Forgive me if the questions seem a bit foolish. The bottom line is that I have not used any kind of development boards in the past and I would like to receive some insight on which one of the above to choose. Cheers, Mikko ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/