[U-Boot-Users] mpc8544 u-boot support

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Clemens Koller wrote:

> Leonid schrieb:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I am not new in u-boot, but this is the first time I must deal with
>> Freescale CPU, namely mpc8544 (I have been working so far with
>> Microblaze, ARM9, ppc440 and ppc405). My board is going to be very  
>> close
>> to Interpid reference design.
>>
>> If somebody of you folks can point me to the best u-boot and Linux
>> resources for this CPU and board, I would really appreciate that.
>
> Depending on board hardware-compatibility, it's best to use the  
> latest U-Boot
> release from: ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ or the latest
> git-tree: http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=u-boot.git;a=summary
>
> I am fine (for mpc8540 and mpc8548) with Linus' 2.6.24 tree from  
> kernel.org.
> For development purposes, however, checkout the latest paulus.git  
> from:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git;a=summary
> YMMV.
>
> For a toolchain, you can go with the Denx' ELDK or use my native CRUX
> Linux distro which will be published, when I'll find some spare  
> time. :-)

I agree with the guys that using the latest u-boot/kernel from git is  
your best choice.  We've been making a lot of changes to 85xx support  
recently and if you intend for your board port to get back into the  
community it will be easier to start from something current.

Also, Freescale provides prebuilt toolchains as part of their 'BSPs'.   
(I'd skip using the BSP for kernel/u-boot at this point).

http://www.freescale.com/linux

- k