Motorola MPC8260 VADS Development Platform

The Motorola MPC8260 VADS Development Platform platform, based on the Motorola MPC8260 is supported by both eCos and RedBoot.

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.

Supported devices

Device drivers are included for:

• Diagnostic (polled) serial I/O
• Interrupt-driven serial I/O
• Ethernet
• FLASH

Availability

Hardware

Hardware is available from:

Software

Source code for both eCos and RedBoot is available publically from eCos releases 2.0 and onwards, as well as from the anonymous CVS repository.

Documentation

Specifications are available for the processor and are available on-line from the manufacturer's web site.

Instructions for installing RedBoot on the VADS can be found in the RedBoot User's Guide.

Thanks

Thanks to Patrick Doyle for the initial work on this platform