Dear Alex Perez,
In message 8585CA02-AED9-4E4F-AE85-F45533BC5514@alexperez.com you wrote:
Yes, I know for a fact that very old ports exist, and running them for the time being would be fine, as a starting-point. The boards themselves contain, unbelievably, no model/part numbers. The boards
Um... on your photo I can clearly read a "MDPPRA-0207" tag. Search for terms like "MDPPRA-ALL-X modular development board" and "ICM86B-860-X MPC860T CPU module".
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my e-mail, Wolfgang. It's most appreciated. From examining the mailing list archives, I see that there is only light MPC860 related traffic over the last couple of years. The most recent, pertinent patch related to MPC860 is at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/29065/match=mpc860
The MPC860 is the vary starting point of this whoile project. It was my development platform when I started working on a boot loader, and MPC8xx was the single target we had in mind in all the initial steps. Only some time later we decided to call this project PPCBoot, long long before it was renamed into U-Boot.
The fact that you don't see 8xx related patches any more lately has two reasons: 1) the processor family is more or less obsolete and I haven't seen it used in any new design for a long, long time (but it is still used in many, many projects, some of them selling in really high volume). 2) as it was the reference platform right from the beginning, it is still one of the best supported architectures, and the code for it can be consered more or less BugFree (TM) :-)
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk