Wookey wrote:
>>Could you give me some idea on the progress towards having a working Jflash
>>and bootldr for L3?
> 
> I don't really know. And Nick is on hols.
> 
> I haven't done anything about it. I'm not sure what nick has done.
> I assume he has them workingon mainstone and that this should be very
> similar to Balloon3, but I'm not sure exactly how similar.

Mainstone is using Blob and some peculair Intel magic to load it, IIRC,
so it's probably not directly transferable to Loon 3.

>>We are likely to have boards by sometime next week and on the assumption
>>that it may take Chris and I a few days to get to the point where we need to
>>put some code into the processor we are likely to need these things at the
>>beginning of March.
>  
> Does the marvellous XJTAG not have a 'download code to this flash using this
> CPU' function? (we will still need Jflash or something similar in due
> course, but this might be better for your immediate purposes).

The XJTAG script for the NOR flash chip has functions in it for writing
data into the chip from a file. I've never tested that functionality but
have no reason to suspect it of being broken.

Stump
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