In message [off-list ref] you wrote:
The new unit works *mostly* fine. No debugging issue (not that I use it that
much anyway, now that the board boots Linux), but still a flash programming
issue. Programming the target parallel NOR flash works in slow JTAG mode, but
not in faster mode using the internal workspace. I reported the problem
This may as well be a misconfiguration in your config file, like
setting wrong flash timings.
several months ago and still haven't received any solution. It might not be
Abatron's fault, the French distributor might not have reported the problem
to them. Abatron people speak German only, and will not respond to e-mails
written in English (nor will they talk to you on the phone, they just hang
up).
I cannot confirm this. On contrary. Abatron's support is one of the
best I've ever seen, and I have seen a few. And of course you can
send messages in English to support@abatron.ch, and you do get
replies. And they do answer the phone (in German and in English,
too).
The BDI-2000 is a nice product, but has a few bugs, is IMHO overprized and has
one of the worst support service I've had to deal with.
Hm... we have about 15 such devices in daily use. I don't doubt your
report, but you must have had really bad luck. This is NOT the normal
situation with Abatron or the BDI.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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Hi Wolfgang,
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The new unit works *mostly* fine. No debugging issue (not that I use it
that much anyway, now that the board boots Linux), but still a flash
programming issue. Programming the target parallel NOR flash works in
slow JTAG mode, but not in faster mode using the internal workspace. I
reported the problem
This may as well be a misconfiguration in your config file, like
setting wrong flash timings.
I agree with you there, but I haven't been able to find which setting I got
wrong. I dumped the registers contents after the board gets initialised by
U-Boot, and all related values are identical. I even traced the U-Boot code
and tried to reproduce the exact initialisation sequence, without luck.
This is definitely an initialisation issue, as programming in workspace mode
works when the board gets initialised by U-Boot first (wrong reset vector
setting in the config file, which makes the BDI freeze the processor after it
started up).
quoted
several months ago and still haven't received any solution. It might not
be Abatron's fault, the French distributor might not have reported the
problem to them. Abatron people speak German only, and will not respond
to e-mails written in English (nor will they talk to you on the phone,
they just hang up).
I cannot confirm this. On contrary. Abatron's support is one of the
best I've ever seen, and I have seen a few. And of course you can
send messages in English to support@abatron.ch, and you do get
replies. And they do answer the phone (in German and in English,
too).
I might have been unlucky, but the person who picked the phone definitely hung
up on us when he/she realized we were speaking English.
quoted
The BDI-2000 is a nice product, but has a few bugs, is IMHO overprized
and has one of the worst support service I've had to deal with.
Hm... we have about 15 such devices in daily use. I don't doubt your
report, but you must have had really bad luck. This is NOT the normal
situation with Abatron or the BDI.
Glad to hear :-) I will try again then. Thanks.
Best regards,
Laurent Pinchart