Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Singleton, SJ (Steve)" <[email protected]> · Mon, 1 Nov 2004 13:31:34 -0000

Hello Ralph

Here are the instructions I wrote for people here at Diamond: 

4.2	Loading the Boot ROM to Flash Memory
This is necessary for new processor cards or to load a modified boot ROM.
First power down and take out the processor, change jumper J8 (situated at
the top back corner of the board) to boot from Flash 1 instead of Flash 0,
insert the processor and power up again.   The following represents the
necessary input/output on the debug port; user input is shown in bold;
comment is in italics:

Copyright Motorola Inc. 1999-2003, All Rights Reserved
MOTLoad RTOS Version 2.0,  PAL Version 1.1 RM02
Tue Jul 1 16:34:30 MST 2003

MPU-Int Clock Speed =1000MHz
MPU-Ext Clock Speed =133MHz
MPU-Number/Type = 0/MPC7455
MPU-Int Cache(L2) = 256K, Enabled, L2CR =0xC0000000
MPU-Ext Cache(L3) =   2MB, Enabled, 200MHz, L3CR=0xDF826000

Reset/Boot Vector    =Flash1

Local Memory Found   =20000000 (&536870912)
User Download Buffer =005C3000:007C2FFF

MVME5500>  netShow

Interface            EAddress               Status      Speed         Duplex
/dev/enet0       0001AF0B1BEC     Down      Unknown  Unknown
/dev/enet1       0001AF0B1BED     Up            100MBS     Full
MVME5500> gevEdit mot-/dev/enet1-cipa       or /dev/enet0 if that is the
active Ethernet port.
(Blank line terminates input.)
130.246.98.xxx          The IP address of the MVME5500

Update Global Environment Area of NVRAM (Y/N)? Y
MVME5500> gevEdit mot-/dev/enet1-sipa       or /dev/enet0 if that is the
active Ethernet port.
(Blank line terminates input.)
130.246.98.xxx          The IP address of the machine from which the boot
ROM is to be loaded.

Update Global Environment Area of NVRAM (Y/N)? Y
MVME5500> gevEdit mot-/dev/enet1-gipa       or /dev/enet0 if that is the
active Ethernet port.
(Blank line terminates input.)
130.246.96.254          The IP address of the gateway

Update Global Environment Area of NVRAM (Y/N)? Y
MVME5500> gevEdit mot-/dev/enet1-file       or /dev/enet0 if that is the
active Ethernet port.
(Blank line terminates input.)
/tftpboot/mv5500.ROM           The name of the boot file

Update Global Environment Area of NVRAM (Y/N)? Y
MVME5500> tftpGet -d/dev/enet1 -r1 -v
Network File Load in Progress...
[]><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< etc <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Bytes Received = &605920, Bytes Loaded =&605290
Bytes/Second   = &605290, Elapsed Time =1 Second(s)
MVME5500> flashProgram -o01f00100 -nfff00
Source Starting/Ending Addresses         = 005C3000/006C2EFF
Destination Starting/Ending Addresses = F3F00100/F3FFFFFF
Number of Effective Bytes                         = 000FFF00 (&1048320)

Program Flash Memory (Y/N)? Y
Flash Memory Programming Complete 

The above seems to have worked for us; hope it helps with you.

Regards
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ralph Lange
Sent: 01 November 2004 13:17
To: EPICS Tech-Talk
Subject: MVME 5500/6100: How to flash the VxWorks bootrom?

Hi all,

with those new PPC board series Motorola seems to have switched from the
good old PPCbug to something called MOTLoad.

Does anyone have a clue or - even better - instructions on how to
download and flash the VxWorks bootrom on one of these boards?

Thanks a lot,
Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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