Verdex JTAG
This page explains one way to use OpenOCD JTAG software with verdex pro. This is useful for hardware debugging and reflashing verdex boards.
Up To Date Instructions (Start Here)
The instructions below have recently been updated to include user experiences using more recent versions of the software involved in flashing (Thank you, John Howard!). This document is available on the Gumstix Developer Center.
Get OpenOCD
Start by downloading OpenOCD. To get the latest features and support for your particular JTAG adapter, build from source. If you are using a JTAG adapter that connects to your computer via USB, you'll likely need to enable libftdi support.
$ git clone git://openocd.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openocd/openocd $ cd openocd $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure --enable-ft2232_libftdi $ make -j2
At this point, you can install it with a sudo make install. I just ran in place:
$ ./src/openocd -s tcl -f tcl/interface/flyswatter.cfg -f tcl/board/verdex.cfg
Three important notes:
- your verdex should be powered and connected via JTAG
- replace -f tcl/interface/flyswatter.cfg with the configuration for your particular JTAG adapter
If all goes well, you should see something like this:
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.6.0-dev-00084-gdaa4147 (2011-09-26-16:43) Licensed under GNU GPL v2 For bug reports, read http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/doxygen/bugs.html Info : only one transport option; autoselect 'jtag' adapter_nsrst_delay: 260 jtag_ntrst_delay: 250 Info : verdex.cpu: hardware has 2 breakpoints and 2 watchpoints trst_and_srst separate srst_gates_jtag trst_push_pull srst_open_drain 50000 kHz Info : clock speed 6000 kHz Info : JTAG tap: verdex.cpu tap/device found: 0x89265013 (mfg: 0x009, part: 0x9265, ver: 0x8)
Using JTAG
With the OpenOCD daemon running, open a new terminal window and fire up a telnet (or gdb) session:
$ telnet localhost 4444
You can now play with JTAG. Hint: the help command is pretty useful.
Reflashing
These are the steps I followed to reflash my board starting from a telnet session:
reset halt flash write_image erase unlock /home/ash/u-boot.bin flash write_image erase unlock /home/ash/rootfs.jffs2 0x00040000 flash write_image erase unlock /home/ash/uImage 0x01e00000
Notes:
- you need to specify absolute ('~' doesn't count) paths to your files ('u-boot.bin', 'rootfs.jffs2', 'uImage')
- for XM4 boards, change '0x01e00000' to '0x00e00000'
- for debugging/unbricking, it certainly isn't necessary to flash all three components---just u-boot.bin is sufficient
