Re: [ECOS] XScale Flash with Vision Probe II

[Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> McAtee, Kip writes:

> Greetings-
> We discovered, luckily, that converting redboot using the
> WindRiver 'convert' utility to redboot.bin solves the
> problem of not writing the .data section to flash symptom,
> which was described in a previous thread.

> We continue to struggle to write sector 0 of flash cleanly
> via the Vision Probe II JTAG emulator on the XScale Cyclone eval
> board. We can write part of it, but then it gives a 0xbad error.

> Does anybody have experience writing redboot to the flash
> primary boot, org'd at zero on this configuration?

There is a "hole" in the XScale Cyclone flash. 0x1000 - 0x1fff
actually mapps to the I/O companion chip registers and not to
flash. Perhaps you are trying to program that region. The
Intel FRU tool and RedBoot itself avoid writing into that area
when reprogramming the first flash block.

--Mark