Re: [Milkymist-devel] if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash?

2011-08-17 Thread Sebastien Bourdeauducq
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 23:51 +0100, Michael Walle wrote: > What do you think about an small on chip bootrom which initializes the sdram > core, looks for a magic word and either boots an image from nor or falls back > to serial boot loader. SDRAM can be difficult to get to work at times, and the

Re: [Milkymist-devel] if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash?

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Walle
Greetings from beach :) Sébastien. What do you think about an small on chip bootrom which initializes the sdram core, looks for a magic word and either boots an image from nor or falls back to serial boot loader. The rom could be shared with the gdb stub. We may even fall back or reuse the gdb d

Re: [Milkymist-devel] if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash?

2011-08-16 Thread Michael Walle
Greetings from beach :) Sébastien. What do you think about an small on chip bootrom which initializes the sdram core, looks for a magic word and either boots an image from nor or falls back to serial boot loader. The rom could be shared with the gdb stub. We may even fall back or reuse the gdb d

Re: [Milkymist-devel] if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash?

2011-08-16 Thread Sebastien Bourdeauducq
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 06:31 -0500, Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas wrote: > > If the BIOS cannot boot at all, there will be a problem since software > > is supposed to initialize SDRAM. So you won't have memory to load any > > software - though you might try abusing the softusb on-chip SRAM :) > > W

Re: [Milkymist-devel] if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash?

2011-08-16 Thread Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas
> If the BIOS cannot boot at all, there will be a problem since software > is supposed to initialize SDRAM. So you won't have memory to load any > software - though you might try abusing the softusb on-chip SRAM :) What about a sparate sram core? (and not mess with usb) as used in early milkymist

Re: [Milkymist-devel] if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash?

2011-08-16 Thread Sebastien Bourdeauducq
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 12:24 +0800, Xiangfu Liu wrote: > if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR > flash? > for now we can load soc bitstream with 'pld' can we load test software direct > to memory > by jtag? If the BIOS cannot boot at all, there will be a problem

[Milkymist-devel] if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash?

2011-08-15 Thread Xiangfu Liu
Hi if there a way to load soc bitstream and test software without touch NOR flash? for now we can load soc bitstream with 'pld' can we load test software direct to memory by jtag? ___ http://lists.milkymist.org/listinfo.cgi/devel-milkymist.org IRC: #mi