On Oct 16, 2009, at 11:01 AM, Scott Wood wrote:

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I have the LITE5200B, MPC8313-ERDB, MPC8572DS, and the P2020DS in
house, and it is really the same, sad story with each of
them. Wouldn't it be grand if the development boards would boot "out
of the box" when compiling the most recent kernel with default  
config?

That's what the group I'm in tries to make sure happens (for the
mpc8xxx/qoriq chips) -- but we're outnumbered by the BSP developers,  
so some
BSP features tend to be missing.  Basic board support should be there,
though.

I just booted 2.6.32-rc4 straight from Linus on an mpc8572ds  
yesterday.
I've booted various upstream kernels on mpc8313erdb (typically an  
older rev,
though).

Also, if they don't boot out of the box report an issue on this list.   
That is part of the community testing aspect of open source.

- k