[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] 85xx: Support for XPedite5200

Peter Tyser ptyser at xes-inc.com
Wed Nov 19 00:52:10 CET 2008


On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 00:28 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Peter Tyser,
> 
> In message <1225213372-15439-1-git-send-email-ptyser at xes-inc.com> you wrote:
> > These 2 patches add support for the XPedite5200 SBC -
> > a MPC8548-based PMC card made by Extreme Engineering
> > Solutions.
> 
> Just out of curiousity: who comes up wityh such board names? I  would
> bet  a  few  beer  that  a  board  with the name "XPedite5200" uses a
> MPC5200 processor, but no, it's a MPC8548 instead.

A marketing guy and a voodoo priestess:)  There actually is a
complicated bitmasked convention that involves form factor, CPU type,
board "generation", etc but you'd need a calculator to figure it out.

> This is a really confusing name, isn't  it?  [I  guess  you  do  this
> intentionally  to shock competitors about the performance you get out
> of a 5200, right?]

Yes, agreed.  I'll mention the MPC5200 angle to our marketing guys:)



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