From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Tyser Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:21:16 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] MPC8572 board In-Reply-To: <4A525366.2090405@gmail.com> References: <4A525366.2090405@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1246918876.7601.147.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Nikhil, > We need to buy a MPC8572 development board for application prototyping. > We are located in the US. From what I've found the following companies > sell an MPC8572 board: > > 1) Micetek > 2) Embeddedplanet.com > 3) Freescale > 4) Xes-inc > > Are there any other companies that sell an MPC8572 board? We are > interested in platforms that are most compatible with UBoot and ELDK. There may be a few others (Emerson Network Power?) but I'm not familiar with them. At this point, only Freescale and XES's MPC8572-based boards are supported in mainline U-Boot and Linux (XES's boards will be in 2.6.31). I imagine the other vendors use U-Boot as well, they just haven't submitted their code back upstream. Legally, they'd have to give you the source code with the development board you purchased. I believe ELDK's ppc_85xxDP packages should support any MPC8572-based board. I also believe the latest DENX kernel supports Freescale's MPC8572 reference boards out of the box. I'm not all that familiar with the ELDK, so take the above with a grain of salt. I work at XES so feel free to contact me if you have any interest in our MPC8572 products and I can put you in contact with the the proper people. Best, Peter