1Freescale MPC837xE-RDB Board 2----------------------------------------- 3 41. Board Description 5 6 The MPC837xE-RDB are reference boards featuring the Freescale MPC8377E, 7 MPC8378E, and the MPC8379E processors in a Mini-ITX form factor. 8 9 The MPC837xE-RDB's have the following common features: 10 11 A) 256-MBytes on-board DDR2 unbuffered SDRAM 12 B) 8-Mbytes NOR Flash 13 C) 32-MBytes NAND Flash 14 D) 1 Secure Digital High Speed Card (SDHC) Interface 15 E) 1 Gigabit Ethernet 16 F) 5-port Ethernet switch (Vitesse 7385) 17 G) 1 32-bit, 3.3 V, PCI slot 18 H) 1 32-bit, 3.3 V, Mini-PCI slot 19 I) 4-port USB 2.0 Hub 20 J) 1-port OTG USB 21 K) 2 serial ports (top main console) 22 L) on board Oscillator: 66M 23 24 The MPC837xE-RDB's have the following differences: 25 26 MPC8377E-RDB MPC8378E-RDB MPC8379E-RDB 27 SATA controllers 2 0 4 28 PCI-Express (mini) 2 2 0 29 SGMII Ports 0 2 0 30 31 322. Memory Map 33 342.1. The memory map should look pretty much like this: 35 36 Address Range Device Size Port Size 37 (Bytes) (Bits) 38 =========================== ================= ======= ========= 39 0x0000_0000 0x0fff_ffff DDR 256M 64 40 0x1000_0000 0x7fff_ffff Empty 1.75G - 41 0x8000_0000 0x8fff_ffff PCI MEM prefetch 256M 32 42 0x9000_0000 0x9fff_ffff PCI MEM non-prefetch 256M 32 43 0xe030_0000 0xe03f_ffff PCI I/O space 1M 32 44 0xe000_0000 0xe00f_ffff Int Mem Reg Space 1M - 45 0xe060_0000 0xe060_7fff NAND Flash 32K 8 46 0xfe00_0000 0xfe7f_ffff NOR Flash on CS0 8M 16 47 48 493. Definitions 50 513.1 Explanation of NEW definitions in: 52 53 include/configs/MPC837XERDB.h 54 55 CONFIG_MPC83xx MPC83xx family for both MPC8349 and MPC8360 56 CONFIG_MPC837x MPC837x specific 57 CONFIG_MPC837XERDB MPC837xE-RDB board specific 58 59 604. Compilation 61 62 Assuming you're using BASH shell: 63 64 export CROSS_COMPILE=your-cross-compile-prefix 65 cd u-boot 66 make distclean 67 make MPC837XERDB_config 68 make 69 70 715. Downloading and Flashing Images 72 735.0 Download over serial line using Kermit: 74 75 loadb $loadaddr 76 [Drop to kermit: 77 ^\c 78 send <u-boot-bin-image> 79 c 80 ] 81 82 83 Or via tftp: 84 85 tftp $loadaddr u-boot.bin 86 875.1 Reflash U-Boot Image using U-Boot 88 89 tftp $loadaddr u-boot.bin 90 protect off fe000000 fe0fffff 91 erase fe000000 fe0fffff 92 cp.b $loadaddr fe000000 $filesize 93 94 956. Additional Notes: 96 1) The console is connected to the top RS-232 connector and the 97 baudrate for MPC837XE-RDB is 115200bps. 98