Hi Nikhil,
We need to buy a MPC8572 development board for application prototyping. We are located in the US. From what I've found the following companies sell an MPC8572 board:
- Micetek
- Embeddedplanet.com
- Freescale
- Xes-inc
Are there any other companies that sell an MPC8572 board? We are interested in platforms that are most compatible with UBoot and ELDK.
There may be a few others (Emerson Network Power?) but I'm not familiar with them. At this point, only Freescale and XES's MPC8572-based boards are supported in mainline U-Boot and Linux (XES's boards will be in 2.6.31). I imagine the other vendors use U-Boot as well, they just haven't submitted their code back upstream. Legally, they'd have to give you the source code with the development board you purchased.
I believe ELDK's ppc_85xxDP packages should support any MPC8572-based board. I also believe the latest DENX kernel supports Freescale's MPC8572 reference boards out of the box. I'm not all that familiar with the ELDK, so take the above with a grain of salt.
<shameless_sales_plug> I work at XES so feel free to contact me if you have any interest in our MPC8572 products and I can put you in contact with the the proper people. </shameless_sales_plug>
Best, Peter