From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dustin Byford" Subject: Re: custom mpc8240 student project (long) To: "Ron Bianco" , Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 20:07:16 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Thank you all for the suggestions. The BDI was simply too much for the school to spend on a small group of people. I did however contact Macraigor Systems and explain my situation. They have donated a wiggler so it looks like I'm in business, thanks to Macraigor! On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:40:05 -0800 "Ron Bianco" wrote: > > My $.02: > > Why don't you just use a regular old EPROM to hold your > ppcboot monitor image.? Haven't quite decided on the ROM exactly, still waiting on samples from AMD but a regular EPROM sounds like good idea for now. > You're planning to run at a very low clock speed on your > wire-wrapped board. > Ugh! > Better check the 8240 datasheet, there may be lower > limits to what's allowed. >>From the hardware spec it looks like the PLL can be configured to 33Mhz/pci 33mhz/memory 100Mhz cpu. Hopefully the wirewrap can handle this. > > Good luck, Ron It is starting to sound like I'm really going to need luck, so thanks. --Dustin ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/