Looking for good supported South bridge for mpc6841d

Zhivko Yordanov jivkojj at uni-kassel.de
Thu Apr 16 19:20:01 EST 2009


On Wednesday 15 April 2009 14:17:47 you wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Zhivko Yordanov <jivkojj at uni-kassel.de> 
wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm on designing of a new embedded board, based on mpc6841d and South
> > Bridge ULi M1575. As а reference design, I use Freescale HPCN board.
> > However after consult with chip's distributor, it became clear that the
> > M1575 is already discounted. Now I'm in looking of an another solution.
> > Can somebody recommend me an alternative, good supported from u-boot and
> > have SATA, USB, Audio on it? The chip must be connected with mpc6841d
> > over PCI-Express.
> >
> > Best regarsds,
> >
> > Yordanov
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> I think the only alternatives you have are chips from Via and perhaps
> Sis. It looks like Via has some nice south bridges which do what you
> want, see:
> http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/south-bridges.jsp
>
> Roderick

Thank you for the anser!

Unfortunately VIA and SIS uses own connection bus between North and Sout 
bridges - V-map and MuTiol.
I found AMD's SB600 and SB7x0 bridges, that seems to connect through 
PCI-Express. Are they from u-boot spupported?

Best regards



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