[coreboot] Holding the s2895 in reset powers off the machine

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Wed Jul 8 00:46:45 CEST 2009


Myles Watson wrote:
> > Just for my interest, but why does someone need to power on a
> > system while holding the reset button?
> 
> In this case it is to allow my FPGA time to initialize (or for me
> to reprogram it) before the Opteron tries to set up HyperTransport
> communication with it.

For an ugly hack<tm> maybe it would work to pulse the reset.

Do the two boards have the same chipset?


//Peter




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