[OLPC-devel] olpc flash program.

[Ronald G Minnich]

Richard Smith wrote:

> I was discussing this with Tom earlier in a off list thread.  And I'm
> not sure the device is  ever going to be _fully_ recoverable by jtag.
> The serial rom is  SPI and so is not connected to the JTAG chain.  You
> have to talk to the EC which does the SPI to the rom.  So if you trash
> the EC code.  I think you are toast.

bingo. I think that's whad I did. This is another defect in the Awfully 
Complex Power Interface (ACPI) which I just read again over the weekend. 
You have to have a working flash to program the flash. Hmm.

> If we can get the pinout of CN20 and how all thats wired up perhaps we
> can put together a simple flash recovery hardware/software suite.
> 

good plan.

ron