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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
