[U-Boot] Seeking PPC BDM resources for MPC860, docs for old MPC860 Eval Board

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Alex Perez,

In message <8585CA02-AED9-4E4F-AE85-F45533BC5514 at alexperez.com> you wrote:
> 
> Yes, I know for a fact that very old ports exist, and running them for  
> the time being would be fine, as a starting-point. The boards  
> themselves contain, unbelievably, no model/part numbers. The boards  

Um... on your photo I can clearly read a  "MDPPRA-0207"  tag.  Search
for   terms   like   "MDPPRA-ALL-X  modular  development  board"  and
"ICM86B-860-X MPC860T CPU module".

> Thanks for taking the time to reply to my e-mail, Wolfgang. It's most  
> appreciated. From examining the mailing list archives, I see that  
> there is only light MPC860 related traffic over the last couple of  
> years.  The most recent, pertinent patch related to MPC860 is at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/29065/match=mpc860

The MPC860 is the vary starting point of this whoile project. It  was
my  development platform when I started working on a boot loader, and
MPC8xx was the single target we had in mind in all the initial steps.
Only some time later we decided to call this  project  PPCBoot,  long
long before it was renamed into U-Boot.

The fact that you don't see 8xx related patches any more  lately  has
two  reasons:  1) the processor family is more or less obsolete and I
haven't seen it used in any new design for a long, long time (but  it
is  still used in many, many projects, some of them selling in really
high volume). 2) as it was the  reference  platform  right  from  the
beginning,  it  is still one of the best supported architectures, and
the code for it can be consered more or less BugFree (TM) :-)


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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