MPC8568E-MDS board support

[Kumar Gala]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:20 AM, emre kara wrote:

> Hi folks;
> My question is espacially to freescale people.
> We have a plan to move our platform  to a new (and
> fast) freescale cpu (currently we are using MPC8540),
> and MPC8568E is an  reasonable alternative. There is
> an development board, named MPC8568E-MDS but I
> could'nt find any resource related to it.
> Here is my questions:
> 1- Is there any plan to support this board and cpu?
> When?

typically freescale has provided patches for new boards.

> 2- What is the nearest cpu and board to start
> development on MPC8568E-MDS and how much work do we
> have to spend?

the MPC8548 CDS and MPC8360 MDS are probably the best starting points.

- k