In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disc space - the final frontier! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
