Hi Andy, you may also try to boot the board over the UART and than use u-boot to flash your board. Worked fine for us. As long as your flash is CFI compliant this should work with nearly every flash chip.
Ciao, Peter On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Andy Ngo wrote: > Hi, > > Next week, our custom Davinci bread board will be in for me to start bringing > it up. The memory parts (NOR flash, DDR) > are different than those of the DVEVM. I plan to use the XDS510 or XDS560 > JTAG emulator to test those components > first to make sure they work. As for flashing the u-boot image, since the > NOR flash on our board is different than that > of the DVEVM, I can't use the FlashWriter (from Spectrum Digital) to program > the NOR flash. A TI tech gave me the > source code for the FlashWriter but said that the code is "poorly written" > and TI has no support for it so I'm on my own. > > Well, in the past, we have use the Corelis boundary scan tool to directly > program the flash of most of our boards. > Has anyone try programming the flash on the DVEVM with a boundary scan tool > like Corelis or ASSET? This will be > a lot easier than having to deal with the FlashWriter code. > > How do you think I should approach this in bringing our board and flashing > u-boot? Your advice is appreciated! Thanks! > > Regards, > Andy | Peter Wippich Voice: +49 30 46776411 | | G&W Instruments GmbH fax: +49 30 46776419 | | Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, Geb. 12 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | D-13355 Berlin / Germany | _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list [email protected] http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
