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- By Thomas.Lange@corelatus.se 2003-10-06
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- DbAu1000 is a development board from AMD containing
- an Alchemy AU1000 with mips32 core.
- Limitations & comments
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- I assume that you set board to BIG endian!
- Little endian not tested, most probably broken.
- I named the board dbau1x00, to allow
- support for all three development boards
- some day ( dbau1000, dbau1100 and dbau1500 ).
- I only have a dbau1000, so all testing is limited
- to this board!
- The board has two different flash banks, that can
- be selected via dip switch. This makes it possible
- to test new bootloaders without thrashing the YAMON
- boot loader deliviered with board.
- Ethernet only supported for mac0.
- Pcmcia only supported for slot 0, only 3.3V.
- Pcmcia IDE tested with Sandisk Compact Flash and
- IBM microdrive.
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- ######## NOTE!!!!!! #########
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- If you partition a disk on another system (e.g. laptop),
- all bytes will be swapped on 16bit level when using
- PCMCIA!!!!
- This is probably due to an error in Au1000 chip.
- Solution:
- a) Boot via network and partition disk directly from
- dbau1x00. The endian will then be correct.
- b) Partition disk on "laptop" and fill it with all files
- you need. Then write a simple program that endian swaps
- whole disk,
- Example:
- Original "laptop" byte order:
- B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9...
- Dbau1000 byte order will then be:
- B1 B0 B3 B2 B5 B4 B7 B6 B9 B8...
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