[ELDK] ELDK version Supporting Freescale MPC8572

[Matheos Worku]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>Dear Matheos Worku,
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>In message <48FDFF5A.5030601 at sun.com> you wrote:
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>>What eldk version should I use for a board based on Freescale MPC8275 
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>I guess the MPC8275 here is just a typo and you really mean the MPC8572
>as given in the subject? The MPC8275 is a PQ II processor, and
>definitely not a dual-core one.
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>[But hey, who knows what Freescale defines that to mean - they also
>call the MPC5121E a "dual core" system...]
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>>dual core processor? I see that ELDK 4.2 has ppc_85xxDP. Is that the 
>>version I need to use or ELDK 4.1 will do?
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Wolfgang,

I meant MPC8572 dual core and thanks  a lot for the info. I was hoping 
to get away with ELDK 4.1 since I have another work which uses ELDK 4.1 
ppc_85xx packages.
What uboot version do you recommend for MPC8572 based platform?

Regards
Matheos

>As far as I can tell, the MPC8572 has no real FPU but the same SPE v2
>unit as used for example in the 8544/8548.  So  you  should  use  the
>ppc_85xxDP packages.
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>Best regards,
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>Wolfgang Denk
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