[LinuxBIOS] Good JTAG debuggers?

Li-Ta Lo ollie at lanl.gov
Tue May 30 22:08:55 CEST 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 21:03 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> David Hendricks wrote:
> > If all you need is a reprogrammer, you can always use the hot swap trick
> > (Described on this list and the wiki). Or better yet, for about $25US (
> > http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=bios+savior&btnG=Search ) you can get a
> > BIOS Savior to make the process less hazardous to your mainboard's health.
> > It's a piggyback device with a switch so you don't even need to remove it
> > once installed--Just flip the switch to go back and forth between ROMs.
> 
> The OLPC BIOS chip is soldered on the board, so the BIOS saviour and the
> hot swap trick unfortunately won't work.
> 

The OLPC rev A should have a socket for the LPC flash rom.

> Semi-OT: Does Google use LinuxBIOS? AFAICS that would be a natural fit.
> 
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
> -- 
> http://www.hailfinger.org/
> 
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Li-Ta Lo <ollie at lanl.gov>
Los Alamos National Lab





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