I use the BDI-2000 for an AU1500 based board. For the boot loader I found u-boot to be very functional. It did require a bit of patching to handle the Au1500 in little endian mode, but since that is now done everything works great. Ed Okerson > We are finishing up the design of our new Au1550 based board. I was > wondering if someone could recommend an ejtag wiggler. I need > something that has full linux host support, is good enough to flash a > bootloader and do some minimal debug while getting the board support > working. Looking over the list some people seem to be using the > Abatron BDI 2000 and others are using the Macraigor mpDemon. What do > you guys recommend? > > This is my first time doing embedded linux, but I've done quite a bit > with DSPs (written bootloaders, flash programmers, etc). I was > wondering how people go about bootstrapping new Au1xxx systems. Who is > responsible for configuring the PLL or SDRAM enough to allow code to > be loaded into SDRAM? Are bootloaders like YAMON position independent > to run out of SDRAM? > > Thanks, > Clem >
