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

[Kumar Gala]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:

>
> 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

Also, forgot to say we have the MPC8544 DS board in u-boot today  
(boards/freescale/mpc8544ds)

- k