[coreboot] Booting Geode LX processor autonomously

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Wed May 21 12:58:59 CEST 2008


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:57:33PM +0200, llandre wrote:
> >> When I disconnect the JTAG debugger and set irq13 to 0 to let the
> >> processor to boot from the LPC dongle flash, it does not boot. Do
> >> I need to perform other operations to let it boot autonomously?
> > 
> > No, it should work without changes.
> > 
> > But how do you provide power to the dongle?
> 
> My Artec dongle is powered externally via USB cable so, when
> processor tries to fetch boot code, FPGA should be already up and
> running.
> However I noted that R26 on dongle in not mounted thus RESET coming
> from processor board is not connected to the reset monitor. Is that
> ok?

Hm. I did have to reset the dongle manually after flashing it, but
otherwise I did not have any reset issues.


//Peter




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