Questions abot MPC8313E-RDB card.

[SMaybisher]

Hi, I'm new in PowerPC. I'm looking for the MPC8313E-RDB card for beginning. My problem is that I don't have possibility for buying a debugger and then I want to load to RAM and run.

Is possible to do it?

If by mistake I'll erase the flash, is possible without debugger to burn it?

Thanks in advance.

S. Maybisher

[genuap]

Nope - sorry. If you blow away the flash, you need a debugger to re-flash it.

It should ship with uboot in the flash - which should allow you to update uboot / Linux at least.

[TedMarshall]

Not quite true.  If you erase u-boot from the flash, you can boot from the I2C EEPROM which (at least on recent boards) contains an emergency flash load program.  This will allow you to use a terminal emulator with the kermit protocol to reburn u-boot.

See the Getting Started guide for more details.  In the rev. 1 document, it's section 3.2.