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Project homepage URL does not exist

rigo — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:40:49 -0000

The homepage for this project, as displayed in the "Summary" page on Sourceforge, is http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/blob/
The host www.lart.tudelft.nl does not exist.

use neponset serial port

Erik Mouw — Sun, 10 Mar 2002 08:57:56 -0000

Use the serial port of the Neponset board when
Assabet+Neponset are used together. The kernel expects
it that way, and when done wrong it might even break
the Assabet serial port.

flashing locked partition loses

Christopher Hoover — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:08:44 -0000

> also if a flash block is locked and I try to flash
something
> I have to reboot to reset the flash. both unlock and
further
> flashes will fail. Seen on IDR with cvs.

Yeah, I know about this one -- sort of.

For me, the following sequence does succeeed:

<locked partition, e.g., after power cycle with C3
flash> xdownload partition flash partition {flames
out, oops} unlock partition flash partition

Except that unlock complains that it isn't happy. But
it does work.

This is with the C3 flash.

I quickly eyeball'ed the code again, but I don't see
anything obviously wrong. Time to pore over the CFI
docs again ... sigh.

I suppose a workaround is to check for locks before
attempting flashing ...

-ch

Serial I/O hangs on typeahead

Christopher Hoover — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:07:42 -0000

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:56:21PM -0800, Christopher
Hoover wrote:
> Is it just me? If I type characters to blob when
blob isn't reading
> them (e.g. in the midst of flashing or erasing), the
serial i/o hangs.
> When the command prompt comes back, blob won't
accept any input.
>
> This is on BadgePAD 4 which is SA-1110/SA-1111.
>
> I'm running at 115k2,8N1 with no flow control.

Yes, I've seen it as well. I guess it's something with
the new serial driver, but I still haven't a clue why
it happens. I think it's timer related, I need to go
over that code as well.

Erik

param support is broken

Christopher Hoover — Thu, 20 Dec 2001 01:35:04 -0000

[bug and patch refers to current code in cvs]

param_block.c doesn't include <arch.h> which means
that PARAM_START is never defined in that compilation
unit and thus parse_ptags never gets a useful
definition.

parse_ptags also has a reference to PARAM_LEN. that
either needs to be defined explicitly or, as i have
done, converted to PARAM_FLASH_LEN.

[n.b., at least one of the ports (shannon) defines
PARAM_START as PARAM_RAM_BASE -- this can't be right
as main.c never moves the params from flash to ram.
setting PARAM_START to PARAM_FLASH_BASE does work.]

PLEB lacks flash functions

Erik Mouw — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:26:18 -0000

PLEB completely lacks flash functions and a flash layout table.

Shannon flash functions are untested

Erik Mouw — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:24:43 -0000

The Shannon flash functions are untested and the flash descriptor table should be verified.

NESA flash functions are untested

Erik Mouw — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:23:20 -0000

The NESA flash functions are untested and the flash partition table should be verified.

System3 flash functions don't work

Erik Mouw — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:22:00 -0000

The System3 flash functions don't work because I don't know what flash it uses.

Brutus flash functions don't work

Erik Mouw — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 22:14:58 -0000

The Brutus flash functions don't work because no developer has Brutus documentation or a Brutus to test with.