Motorola MPC8260 VADS Development Platform

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The Motorola MPC8260 VADS Development Platform platform, based on the Motorola MPC8260 is supported by RedBoot. [an error occurred while processing this directive] This port is currently considered to be of Alpha quality only at this time.

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The support for this platform was contributed to eCos, and the eCos maintainers are grateful on behalf of the open source community to all contributors. Note that some contributed ports may not have been tested.

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Supported devices

Device drivers are included for:

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• Diagnostic (polled) serial I/O [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Interrupt-driven serial I/O [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Ethernet [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• FLASH [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• PCI [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• USB [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• PCMCIA/Compact Flash [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Keypad [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Touchscreen [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Timekeeping (real-time clock) [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Watchdog [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• SPI [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• I2C [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• ADC [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• CAN [an error occurred while processing this directive]
• Framebuffer

Availability

Hardware

Hardware is available from:

Software

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Source code for RedBoot is available publically from [an error occurred while processing this directive] the anonymous CVS repository only.

Documentation

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Specifications are available for the [an error occurred while processing this directive] architecture and [an error occurred while processing this directive] processor and [an error occurred while processing this directive] platform and are available on-line from the manufacturer's web site.

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Instructions for installing RedBoot on the VADS can be found in the RedBoot User's Guide. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Board specific instructions, including installation instructions can be found here within the User's Guide.

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Instructions for installing and using eCos on the VADS are available here.

The most recent version of the full documentation set may be found on-line here.

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RedBoot support

Prebuilt binaries of RedBoot are available for download for both ROM and RAM startup. Some necessary support files may also be included. Consult the RedBoot documentation on how to use these binaries.

Thanks

Thanks to Patrick Doyle for the initial work on this platform

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