Hi, Yes this is the case too on this board, they are multiplexed. But we don't have a SystemAce adapter and the SystemAce IP is also not included in our design.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrei Konovalov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "S. van Beek" <nlv11891 at prle> Cc: <Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org> Sent: Thursday 17 March 2005 14:17 Subject: Re: Problems with MontaVista Linux on a Memec Virtex-II pro ff672 board > > We added the IP to the hardware and loaded the new bitstream in the FPGA. > > - isn't this the root of the problem? Any hardware conflict? > > Not sure about the ff672 board and the Comm2 module, but in case of fg456 board and P160 COMM module > rev 2 SystemACE and the parallel flash sit on the same data bus. And in the design generated by default > the chip selects are always enabled for both. Maybe you have something similar. > Just a pure guess. > > Thanks, > Andrei > > S. van Beek wrote: > > Hello there, > > > > This is our first post on this list, hi all! We're two Dutch students working with a Virtex-II pro ff672 board from Memec > > with the Communications 2 module. We've compiled a simple kernel wich comes with MontaVista Linux 3.1 (2.4.20) with ethernet > > and a serial port. It mounts its root filesystem over NFS and everything seems to work nicely. The next step we wanted to > > make was adding support for the Flash on the com board. We added the IP to the hardware and loaded the new bitstream in the > > FPGA. Next thing, we enabled support for MTD devices in the kernel. After that, the kernel did not seem to boot anymore. It > > stopped at the message 'Now booting the kernel'. So we read some documentation about debugging. We recompiled this kernel > > with the -g -ggdb options and removed the -O (optimalization) flag. Then we did not even see the ppc boot loader messages > > anymore when trying to boot. So we tried to compile the first kernel (with only serial and ethernet support) -wich worked > > fine before- with debugging and it gave us the same result.. no output at all. Can anyone give us some hints on what we can > > try more to find out what is going wrong? > > > > Regards, Sander van Beek Daniel van Os > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded > > > >
