MIDAM MPC5200 DB1

Description

Two sets of the MIDAM MPC5200 was delivered by the Mikroklima s.r.o. for our purposes. Each set consist of the:

• Shark MPC52000 CPU module (pin compatible with TQ Components TQM5200 module),
• MPC5200 v1.1 2008/02 carrier board.

Set #1 has s/n: 008770 and it's Ethernet MAC address was set to 00:04:9f:00:28:01.

Set #2 has s/n: 008771 and it's Ethernet MAC address was set to 00:04:9f:00:28:02.

Board overview

Serial line (system console)

• Loader system console is attached to the ttyPSC0 port.
• The ttyPSC0 port is done in the LVTTL 3.3V logic, so appropriate 3.3V to RS-232 converter (e.g. MAX3232) is required for the serial console.

Communication parameters:

• baud rate: 115200 bps
• bits: 8 bit
• stop bits: 1 bit
• Parity: none
• Flow control: none

Boot loader

These boards are preinstalled with Das u-Boot boot loader. Behaviour of the uBoot can be handled by its environment variables. Here are some useful commands:

* printenv [variable] prints complete environment or only given variable.

Cross-tool chain

Necessary cross-tool chain for PowerPC platform can be build using Crossdev tool. You can install Crossdev on your Gentoo distro very simply:

emerge -av crossdev

Some dependencies may go before. Building of tool chain itself will take some time, so let's go to take some coffee.

crossdev --b 2.18-r3 --k 2.6.23-r3 --g 4.1.2 --without-headers -t powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu