Re: [ECOS] RE: eb40a RIP

[Tim Drury <tdrury at siliconmotorsports dot com>]

My eb40a has risen from the ashes!  Thank you James and
Min Ling for the eb40a angel images.

I wrote a small flash erase tool to erase those lower sectors
of the eb40a's flash which I couldn't do with the redboot image
I had running in the upper half of flash because the flash driver
I wrote ignored those smaller sectors.  So I used the redboot
ROMRAM in the upper half of flash to upload my flash erase
tool and cleaned out the lower half of the flash chip.  Then I
converted the Angel binary into an srec and loaded it with
redboot.  Burned it back into the lower half of flash and my eb40a
is fully functional again.

I think I keep those Angel images and my flash erase tool around
though....

-tim


On Thursday 25 July 2002 12:37 pm, James wrote:
> I have sent to you directly the binary so as not to hog
> the mail list bandwidth.  This is for
> version "EB40A V1.0" and is a binary image of the flash.
> It turned out that the angel monitor extends from
> 0x01000600 to almost 0x01013000, so it exceeds
> the first 64K of flash.
> James
> James Musselman
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Drury [mailto:tdrury@siliconmotorsports.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 7:09 AM
> > To: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> > Subject: eb40a RIP
> >
> >
> >
> > In the process of testing the flash driver with the eb40a port
> > I just created, I managed to blow away Angel in the lower half
> > of flash.  I have a working copy of redboot_ROMRAM in the
> > upper half, but the flash driver programmed into it doesn't
> > see the first few sectors of the lower half of flash.  This is
> > due to the issue of two different sector sizes in the AT49xxxx
> > flash chip and I simply ignored the smaller sectors.
> >
> > Does anyone with an eb40a have a binary of the Angel bootloader
> > that I can borrow?  I never compiled the one that came with
> > the eb40a and the trial period for Codewarrior has expired so
> > I can't compile it now.
> >
> > If I can get that, I can write a low level driver to erase the whole
> > lower half of the flash and burn Angel back in since my current
> > redboot port cannot do that.  I can use the existing redboot_
> > ROMRAM to load my little driver and fix my eb40a.
> >
> > -tim


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