Dear Andrew Hakman,

In message CABKuU7rqPno3fOZYQbrh=tDD9WcPVf9GHzPv_-rugwgFTy+ErA@mail.gmail.com you wrote:

Let me start by saying I realize this is a bit off topic, but there has been lots of discussion of BDM4GDB on this list in the past.

Does anyone know where to currently get BDM4GDB from? The webpage that used to host it seems completely gone now, and it's not on sourceforge, or anywhere else that I can find. Does anyone just have it kicking around from before?

BDM4GDB is as dead as the BDM debug interface of the PQ1 (MPC8xx) processors. They have been dead for nearly a decade now.

I'm also guessing there's a custom parallel interface for it? Anyone have that info?

There are a number of (usually USB attached) Jtag adapters supported for example by the OpenOCD project.

Soem of them also claim to be BDM compatible, see for example http://www.amontec.com/pub/amt_ann003.pdf

I have never tested such a combination myself, though.

Is there any newer / other tool available to read and flash flash chips connected to a MPC860? Or do some simple debugging on it?

Well, of course there is and always has been the nice BDI2000 / BDI3000 JTAG debuggers by Abatron ... Sometimes you can get such beasts relatively cheap on ebay... (especially Rev. B types which don't work with more recent processors).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk