BSP for 405EX

[nigel at adi.co.nz (Nigel Spon)]

I have been experimenting with RTEMS 4.8 on my Mac under OSX, and  
things seem to be working. I have managed to build a powerpc-gdb and  
connect to my target board via a PC running the Macraigor remote gdb  
tool, so it looks as though I can actually develop and debug with this  
configuration, which is pretty encouraging (and a bit of a surprise,  
to be honest).

The target board is an AMCC Haleakala eval board and has a PPC405EXr  
processor, for which no BSP exists. I presume my next step is going to  
be to build a BSP, but the documentation seems to indicate that if the  
processor isn't supported I have to take other steps first. I'm not  
sure if the processor is supported; the 405 appears to be, is that all  
I need? I'm also wondering what to base my BSP on, and if I should  
stay with 4.8 or go to 4.9? The PPC405EX has quite a few onboard  
facilities (Ethernet, timers, UARTs) that I presume could go into a  
fairly generic BSP for the 405EX. Is this the right way to proceed?


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