| Andes Technology SoC AG101 |
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| AG101 is the first SoC produced by Andes Technology using N1213 CPU core. |
| AG101 has integrated both AHB and APB bus and many periphals for application |
| and product development. |
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| ADP-AG101 |
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| ADP-AG101 is the SoC with AG101 hardcore CPU. |
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| Please check http://www.andestech.com/p2-4.htm for detail of this SoC. |
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| Configurations |
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| CONFIG_MEM_REMAP: |
| Doing memory remap is essential for preparing some non-OS or RTOS |
| applications. |
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| This is also a must on ADP-AG101 board. |
| (While other boards may not have this problem). |
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| The reason is because the ROM/FLASH circuit on PCB board. |
| AG101-A0 board has 2 jumpers MA17 and SW5 to configure which |
| ROM/FLASH is used to boot. |
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| When SW5 = "0101", MA17 = LO, the ROM is connected to BANK0, |
| and the FLASH is connected to BANK1. |
| When SW5 = "1010", MA17 = HI, the ROM is disabled (still at BANK0), |
| and the FLASH is connected to BANK0. |
| It will occur problem when doing flash probing if the flash is at |
| BANK0 (0x00000000) while memory remapping was skipped. |
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| Other board like ADP-AG101P may not enable this since there is only |
| a FLASH connected to bank0. |
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| CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT: |
| If you want to boot this system from FLASH and bypass e-bios (the |
| other boot loader on ROM). You should undefine CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT |
| in "include/configs/adp-ag101.h". |
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| Build and boot steps |
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| build: |
| 1. Prepare the toolchains and make sure the $PATH to toolchains is correct. |
| 2. Use `make adp-ag101` in u-boot root to build the image. |
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| burn u-boot to flash: |
| 1. Make sure the MA17 (J16) is Lo. |
| 2. Make sure the dip switch SW5 is set to "0101". |
| 3. Power On. Press button "S1", then press button "SW1", then you will found the |
| debug LED show 67 means the system successfully booted into e-bios. |
| Now you can control the e-bios boot loader from your console. |
| 4. Under "Command>>" prompt, enter "97" (CopyImageFromCard) |
| 5. Under "Type Dir Name of [CF/SD] =>" promtp, enter "c". |
| 6. Under "Enter Filename =>" prompt, enter the file name of u-boot image you |
| just build. It is usually "u-boot.bin". |
| 7. Under "Enter Dest. Address =>" prompt, enter the memory address where you |
| want to put the binary from SD card to RAM. |
| Address "0x500000" is our suggestion. |
| 8. Under "Command>>" prompt again, enter "55" (CLI) to use interactive command |
| environment. |
| 9. Under "CLI>" prompt, enter "burn 0x500000 0x80400000 0x30000" to burn the |
| binary from RAM to FLASH. |
| 10. Under "CLI>" prompt, enter "exit" to finish the burn process. |
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| boot u-boot from flash: |
| 1. Make sure the MA17 (J16) is Hi). |
| 2. Make sure the dip switch SW5 is set to "1010". |
| 3. Power On. Press button "S1", then you will see the debug LED count to 20. |
| 4. Now you can use u-boot on ADP-AG101 board. |