Hi Wolfgang, > > The new unit works *mostly* fine. No debugging issue (not that I use it > > that much anyway, now that the board boots Linux), but still a flash > > programming issue. Programming the target parallel NOR flash works in > > slow JTAG mode, but not in faster mode using the internal workspace. I > > reported the problem > > This may as well be a misconfiguration in your config file, like > setting wrong flash timings.
I agree with you there, but I haven't been able to find which setting I got wrong. I dumped the registers contents after the board gets initialised by U-Boot, and all related values are identical. I even traced the U-Boot code and tried to reproduce the exact initialisation sequence, without luck. This is definitely an initialisation issue, as programming in workspace mode works when the board gets initialised by U-Boot first (wrong reset vector setting in the config file, which makes the BDI freeze the processor after it started up). > > several months ago and still haven't received any solution. It might not > > be Abatron's fault, the French distributor might not have reported the > > problem to them. Abatron people speak German only, and will not respond > > to e-mails written in English (nor will they talk to you on the phone, > > they just hang up). > > I cannot confirm this. On contrary. Abatron's support is one of the > best I've ever seen, and I have seen a few. And of course you can > send messages in English to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and you do get > replies. And they do answer the phone (in German and in English, > too). I might have been unlucky, but the person who picked the phone definitely hung up on us when he/she realized we were speaking English. > > The BDI-2000 is a nice product, but has a few bugs, is IMHO overprized > > and has one of the worst support service I've had to deal with. > > Hm... we have about 15 such devices in daily use. I don't doubt your > report, but you must have had really bad luck. This is NOT the normal > situation with Abatron or the BDI. Glad to hear :-) I will try again then. Thanks. Best regards, Laurent Pinchart _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
