PPCBoot on Ebony board

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Thu Jul 17 00:45:17 EST 2003


    Brian> I found the flash programmer utility, but I am actually a
    Brian> bit scared to flash the flash with the version of PPCBoot
    Brian> that I made.  I am working without a JTAG interface, so
    Brian> flashing using JTAG is out of the question, and how would I
    Brian> re-flash if the PPCBoot binary I have doesn't work
    Brian> properly?  Is the board running out of EEPROM right now
    Brian> with the IBM Open Shell always there?  I have sifted
    Brian> through the documentation a bit, but haven't found a
    Brian> straight answer as to exactly how the board is setup right
    Brian> out of the box.

The Ebony OpenBIOS runs out of the socketed EEPROM on the board.  Just
pop the current EEPROM, put a sticker on it that says "Original
Bootloader" and use a new EEPROM for PPCBoot testing.

 - Roland

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