Hi again! Thanks to everybody who answered my original mail about a week ago.
The tips were very helpful. For your knowledge, we decided to go with option 2 this time (http://www.metrowerks.com/MW/Develop/NetComm/8540EVAL.htm). Cheers, Mikko P.S. For those who absolutely need an optical 1 Gbps Ethernet interface on board, options 1 and 4 seem to be the only alternatives. Mikko Alutoin wrote 24.06.2004: > > Hi folks! > > I would be happy to receive some comments on pros & cons of different > development boards for MPC85xx cause I'm in the process of selecting > one. > The final design will be using MPC8560 to implement a 1 Gbps > Ethernet card > for a router. ATM support will be needed later on. > The development environment includes a Linux PC and Abatron BDI2000 > emulator. > > Here are the boards that I am aware of: > > 1) MPC8560ADS by Motorola > 2) CW8540DSEVAL by Motorola > 3) SBC8560 by Windriver > 4) Silicon Tx GP3 8560 > 5) MPC8540 RDK by GDATech > > Are these boards all there is? > > I am under the impression that 1, 2, 4 and 5 (but not 3) come with a > Linux > BSP included? Is this correct? > > Being the lazy person that I am, I'm trying to minimize the work to get > Linux up and running on the board. I wonder which board/package gives me > least headache? Are there any pitfalls that I should know about? > > Let us assume that the final product will not be based on a commercial > Embedded Linux distro, but a custom 2.6 kernel with busybox & uclibc. > Should that effect the choice in any way? > > Forgive me if the questions seem a bit foolish. The bottom line is > that I > have not used any kind of development boards in the past and I would > like > to receive some insight on which one of the above to choose. > > Cheers, > Mikko > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
