Unattended debug of the Neo 1973 hardware - OT

[Pranav Desai]

On 3/11/07, Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org> wrote:
> Rod Whitby wrote:
> > Here's a photo of my current test rig:
> >
> >   http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwhitby/413452216/
>

Hello,

The stylus looks very interesting. Can you give us some more info on that ?

-- Pranav

> You rule :-)
>
> > 1) To get (and keep) /dev/ttyACM0 serial access to the bootloader, you
> > need to interrupt the bootloader before it boots Linux.
>
> By the way, you may want to look at the extension of the "preboot"
> mechanism used by the devirginator. That gives you one command line you
> can upload over JTAG. If you need to send more commands than fit into
> the command line, you can prepare a script, with a proper header. You'll
> also find this in the devirginator. (SVN: trunk/src/host/devirginator)
>
> > 2) The only way I can find to get out of uboot DFU Mode back to uboot
> > Runtime Mode is to do a dummy download (e.g. download a file to RAM)
> > which puts uboot back into Runtime Mode (from which you can reset or boot).
>
> Is dfu-util -R not working for you ?
>
> > It would be good to have a dfu-util option which just resets back to
> > runtime mode without having to do a scary dummy download.
>
> As far as dummy downloads are concerned, -a 0 isn't so scary :)
>
> - Werner
>
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>  / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina     werner at almesberger.net /
> /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/
>
>


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