Well, after my mis-adventures with broken Rev B Cirrus Logic board, the engineers for our project come in, we opted for a switch to Hynix. I didn't have a very convincing argument to them to switch their plan back to CL after the MMU incident. (I know Cirrus Logic people read this list, so take this to heart, *don't* send broken dev units, it cost you several thousand chips this go round, who knows how many next) Anyway, the geniuses at Hynix decided putting 4 serial ports on the board was more important than putting 1 ethernet port (Come on guys, admit it, you deserve flak over this Jr. Genious move, RTL + Tranciever <= $10USD) so I'm probably going to have issues until I get a reasonable bootloader onto the device. My plan at this point is to use Cya-CE vi CF card to load up hermit, and write a NE2k driver for a PCMCIA ethernet card, then use that to flash it into bootloader space and go merrily about my business. But before I go down that road, does anyone know of a replacement for "cesh" that runs on linux? The EPP parallel port downloading utility for windows? I'm very confused by the start button, and don't generally feel like going down the M$ path of uploading stuff into the device. If anyone has a better suggestion for bootstrapping a reasonable bootloader on the device I'm all ears. Anyone else out there playing with the Hynix board? Beyound the issue with not having an ethernet connection, the board is pretty nice. (I would definetly trade just about everything on it for a ethernet port built in with "ethload" support in ROM though) Oh, BTW, anyone that gets this board..., *don't* use the terminals to power it up. Use the ATX connector with a standard ATX power supply. The polarity on the 12v rail is backwards of what you would expect, and the four serial line drivers on the board went up in an inferno of molten plastic the other day on me. (Luckily a local SMT shop was able to fix me up) I'm really not having good luck with ARM boards here lately it seems..., lord of MIPS must be getting jealous. Thanks, Shane Nay. _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm Please visit the above address for information on this list.
