Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04A3 board boots
--- On Tue, 14/6/11, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Christoph and Rene will be the first ones to test them starting on Thursday. Eh, not being impatient or anything... but is there news ? :-) _Looking forward, Boudewijn__ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04A3 board boots
Am Freitag 17 Juni 2011, 00:10:49 schrieb WB: --- On Tue, 14/6/11, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: Christoph and Rene will be the first ones to test them starting on Thursday. Eh, not being impatient or anything... but is there news ? :-) _Looking forward, Boudewijn__ The board is here. The required RS232 cable is still missing. I will pick it up today and start my tests in the evening. Best regards, a lucky bastard ;-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04A3 board boots
On 06/15/2011 08:24 AM, community-requ...@lists.openmoko.org wrote: after another illness related delay and a public holiday in Germany, we finally received the first two GTA04A3 boards populated in module configuration. [...] Today, both boards worked almost immediately, started U-Boot and the kernel on a RS232 interface (the bare board has no buttons nor display). As far as we did test today, there are only software bugs (e.g. preventing that the second 256 MB DRAM bank is enabled; and we still have a software fix in the u-boot code for a hardware problem of the A2 version which now is no longer needed). Yeah! -- ## giacomo 'giotti' mariani gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 0x99bfa859 O ASCII ribbon campaign: stop HTML mail www.asciiribbon.org ## ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
GTA04A3 board boots
Dear all, after another illness related delay and a public holiday in Germany, we finally received the first two GTA04A3 boards populated in module configuration. This means a variant where all components with significant height are removed (USB connector, battery connector, headset jack, pogo pins etc.) and some other functions (backlight converter, display connector). Rather, these functions are available on two 60 pin board-to-board connectors on the display side. Well, this variant can't be used inside of a Freerunner case, but it is a wireless PDA module where a second, larger board, can carry this cortex board. The adapter board can also carry a bigger display, additional sensors and hardware etc. I.e. we have a OMAP3 module with many options. Today, both boards worked almost immediately, started U-Boot and the kernel on a RS232 interface (the bare board has no buttons nor display). As far as we did test today, there are only software bugs (e.g. preventing that the second 256 MB DRAM bank is enabled; and we still have a software fix in the u-boot code for a hardware problem of the A2 version which now is no longer needed). Here is a photo of the module: http://download.goldelico.com/gta04/images/DSC00861.jpg We will also make this module available if someone wants to build his/her own tablet or handheld around it. Details how to mount this will be described in the hardware documentation. Now to the progress of the full GTA04. Since the first module boards work well, the SMD company will pickplace two full blown GTA04A3 boards tomorrow and Christoph and Rene will be the first ones to test them starting on Thursday. If the boards work well enough and don't reveal show-stoppers, we can finally start to produce the long awaited Early-Adopter-boards. Phew! Nikolaus ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [Gta04-owner] GTA04A3 board boots
On 14 June 2011 21:03, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller h...@goldelico.com wrote: after another illness related delay and a public holiday in Germany, we finally received the first two GTA04A3 boards populated in module configuration. [...] Today, both boards worked almost immediately, started U-Boot and the kernel on a RS232 interface (the bare board has no buttons nor display). As far as we did test today, there are only software bugs (e.g. preventing that the second 256 MB DRAM bank is enabled; and we still have a software fix in the u-boot code for a hardware problem of the A2 version which now is no longer needed). More lovely news - thanks as ever! Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
