On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 00:28 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Peter Tyser, > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:) _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
