[U-Boot-Users] Initially loading uboot into flash on MPC5200

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <9e4733910802082001y393bf841u9132528a323f775a at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> I'm working on a MPC5200 based design, www.digispeaker.com. What low
> cost options are there for initially loading the flash if a BDI2000 is
> not in the budget? Ideally we'd like to find something cheap enough
> that a hobbyist could buy it if they bricked their board.

I  know  of  one  boad  manufacturer  whoa  uses  an  external  flash
programmer;  he unsolders/reballs/resolders the flash chips to do so.
He claims it works well for him.

> Our hardware is not finalized so we can still change things to make
> programming the flash easier. I wish the MPC5200 had a way to load RAM
> from the serial port like most ARM chips.
> 
> There is a trick using the PCI bus that can be used on the MPC5200 but
> we don't have a PCI socket.

Don't try tricks; go and buy a BDI3000. In the long run, it will trun
out to be the cheapest solution.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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