[OLPC-devel] Teleconference information for OLPC software status meeting.

[Jim Gettys]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:44 -0500, Richard Smith wrote:
> >On 6/21/06, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > sorry I missed it. I got the time wrong.
> >
> > I think the status of linuxbios/linux as bootloader is "almost there",
> > not sure what anyone else might have said. I just need to get marcelo's
> > code that boots from usb.
> 
> I said.  I don't know. I was hoping to ask Ron.  :)
> 
> I said something about a USB irq routing issue and Jim said something
> about still not being able to program the serial flash.

No, as far as I know, Ron knows how to program the serial flash.
Whether the program to reprogram the flash is bullet proof yet is a
different problem.


> 
> Since we are kinda on the subject.   I'll ask a question I had that
> people on the phone call didn't know.
> 
> What's going to be the recommended recovery procedure when I brick my hardware?
> 
> The ATest board has the additional flash socket loaded so thats an option.
> Thats a FWH flash I suppose?  I don't think I have any 1M parts.  What
> mfg is everyone else using?
> 
> A jtag connector is avialable but what about the software to use it?
> There was mention of the fx2? setup that has a GDB interface.
> 
> If I've got a simple JTAG card that I can make IO calls to to make
> things happen on the jtag bus can I get the info to talk to and to
> program the flash?
> 
> Or perhaps a mod to this for olpc support.
> http://openwince.sourceforge.net/jtag/
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child