| -!- dart is now known as dart50 | 16:24 | |
| dart50 | hi there. anyone here? | 16:25 |
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| stekern | dart50: occasionally | 16:29 |
| dart50 | do you know whre ordb2a information and development concentrated? | 16:43 |
| dart50 | where can I get help and send patches for tools like orpmon, spiflash-program? | 16:48 |
| dart50 | I've tried to look into openrisc mailing list archive but found about 20 threads only | 16:49 |
| stekern | well, patches you can always send to the mailing list. I don't know if anyone is still interested in maintaining orpmon | 16:52 |
| stekern | if someone is, they'll pick them up | 16:52 |
| dart50 | and what comes instead of orpmon? u-boot? | 16:54 |
| stekern | yes | 16:55 |
| dart50 | so there is some out-of-tree port? or official u-boot source is up to date with openrisc support? | 16:56 |
| stekern | both | 16:56 |
| stekern | there are some drivers etc not pushe upstream yet | 16:57 |
| stekern | but the mainline architectural port is up to date | 16:58 |
| dart50 | and where is alternative tree with latest features and fixes can be found? | 16:58 |
| stekern | git://openrisc.net/stefan/u-boot | 16:58 |
| dart50 | thank you | 16:59 |
| stekern | you can ping Lonetech in #opencores about the board, I think he's the one that worked on it most | 16:59 |
| dart50 | thank you again, you helped me a lot | 17:02 |
| dart50 | I have some newbie questions related to FPGA developmet | 17:03 |
| dart50 | can you help me& | 17:03 |
| stekern | ask away and we'll see | 17:05 |
| dart50 | ordb2a has FTDI chip which is JTAG capable. does it mean that I can connet to board with Quartus. You know, Tools->JTAG Chain Debugger? | 17:07 |
| stekern | as far as I've heard, no | 17:08 |
| stekern | but I have close to zero knowledge about that board | 17:08 |
| dart50 | my goal for now is to be able to download my configurations to FPGA and evaluate them. without touching SPI flash. is it possible? | 17:10 |
| juliusb | yep should be | 17:10 |
| juliusb | you can directly program the FPGA afaik | 17:10 |
| dart50 | how? what software do I need? | 17:10 |
| juliusb | some JTAG thing, I forget, I think maybe u-jtag or something | 17:11 |
| juliusb | Lonetech in #opencores will know a little more | 17:11 |
| dart50 | urjtag, for example? | 17:12 |
| juliusb | oh yeah maybe that | 17:12 |
| juliusb | again, Lonetech will be able to answer all questions on that | 17:12 |
| juliusb | but have you looked throught he VM image that is available for ordb2a development? | 17:12 |
| dart50 | thats what I do most of time :) | 17:13 |
| dart50 | there are lots of tools | 17:13 |
| dart50 | but almost nothing on how to use it | 17:14 |
| juliusb | :( | 17:14 |
| dart50 | but now, with your help, it's getting clear better | 17:15 |
| dart50 | I see urjtag in VM, so it's supposed to be a needed tool | 17:16 |
| juliusb | yes and grep for where it's used in the scripts | 17:16 |
| juliusb | surely that'll cast some light on the how it's used | 17:16 |
| dart50 | thank you a lot, now I have some new directions | 17:18 |
| juliusb | no worries | 17:20 |
| dart50 | urjtag detected my board. now I should provide some ".svf" to be loaded into? | 17:39 |
| dart50 | suppose, that file contains FPGA configuration but can't figure out where can I get it | 17:41 |
| juliusb | yes you can convert what the altera programming file generation tool spits out into some SVF format suitable for urjtag | 17:42 |
| juliusb | this is something Lonetech will know | 17:42 |
| dart50 | viewing some ready to use svf file show that it's should be generated with "Quartus II SVF converter 11.0" from sof-file. Trying to find that converter... | 17:48 |
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