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1Freescale MPC837xE-RDB Board
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41. Board Description
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6 The MPC837xE-RDB are reference boards featuring the Freescale MPC8377E,
7 MPC8378E, and the MPC8379E processors in a Mini-ITX form factor.
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9 The MPC837xE-RDB's have the following common features:
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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
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24 The MPC837xE-RDB's have the following differences:
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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
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322. Memory Map
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342.1. The memory map should look pretty much like this:
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36 Address Range Device Size Port Size
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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
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493. Definitions
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513.1 Explanation of NEW definitions in:
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53 include/configs/MPC837XERDB.h
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55 CONFIG_MPC83xx MPC83xx family for both MPC8349 and MPC8360
56 CONFIG_MPC837x MPC837x specific
57 CONFIG_MPC837XERDB MPC837xE-RDB board specific
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604. Compilation
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62 Assuming you're using BASH shell:
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64 export CROSS_COMPILE=your-cross-compile-prefix
65 cd u-boot
66 make distclean
67 make MPC837XERDB_config
68 make
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715. Downloading and Flashing Images
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735.0 Download over serial line using Kermit:
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75 loadb $loadaddr
76 [Drop to kermit:
77 ^\c
78 send <u-boot-bin-image>
79 c
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83 Or via tftp:
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85 tftp $loadaddr u-boot.bin
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875.1 Reflash U-Boot Image using U-Boot
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89 tftp $loadaddr u-boot.bin
90 protect off fe000000 fe0fffff
91 erase fe000000 fe0fffff
92 cp.b $loadaddr fe000000 $filesize
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956. Additional Notes:
96 1) The console is connected to the top RS-232 connector and the
97 baudrate for MPC837XE-RDB is 115200bps.
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