On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 04:26 +0800, Folkert Saathoff wrote:
> however, the board is not very stable. four out of five times it boots 
> straight into a random noise pattern.

Hmm, are you sure you are pressing only the _middle_ pushbutton when
booting?

> 
> so i figured that i should flash the firmware with the latest version. 
> because of the unstable system, i'd rather do the flashing via jtag, as i 
> don't want the system to hang during flashing.

Updating from FN won't touch the rescue images, so you won't brick it.

> checking in urjtag interactive mode, there's indeed no support for such a 
> cable type. i cloned the latest urjtag sources from sourceforge, however 
> after running autogen.sh, it does not report any milkymist cable support 
> either.

Works for me. Maybe you need some additional libs for it to work
(libftdi or something).

> so my question is: 
> * how do i get urjtag support for the 'milkymist' jtag cable?

Use the latest urjtag sources, and ask the people you got the urjtag
package from to update it.

> i'm also rather unclear about:
> * what is the version of flickernoise at www.milkymist.org/snapshots/latest?

1.0rc1

> * should flashing the firmware help with those symptoms at all? 

Yes, we fixed tons of bugs since then.

S.

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