Booting ATest board with external monitor

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Nov 16 10:19:06 EST 2006


On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:11 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Yes, there are a couple bugs that affect ATest that we chose not to fix
> during the period we were finishing off the BTest release, as they could
> have destabilized BTest.

Ahh gotcha. Thanks for the quick response.

> One of the items is that the boot code on the Marvell chip needs
> updating; the later driver doesn't like the old boot code.  Right now,
> you can trigger a bad situation on the USB bus, that needs a reset line
> only in the BTest machines to work around (software fixes to the boot
> code are also being worked on)..  And there is one other bug as well.
> 
> We're going to put a build together soon (but maybe not until the week
> after next, after the Thanksgiving holiday) to bring the ATest machines
> up to date; we all need a break here having worked so hard to get BTest
> underway.

Sure, sounds good - those BTest machines look fantastic by the way.
What's the newest build that should work with ATest? An answer of "I
dunno, test some..." is perfectly okay ;-)

Thanks,

Richard.





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