XO1.5 Bringup

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This page lists goals and plans for initial bringup of the XO1.5 board.

Goals

  • Get the Embedded Controller working
  • Basic power supply operation and sequencing
  • Main CPU booting
  • Memory controller working and memory stable (memtest86)
  • OLPC display working
  • Keyboard/mouse working
  • USB working
  • SD memory cards working
  • Boots Linux kernel from SD card
  • Rudimentary power management tests from OFW
  • X?

Non-goals

  • Camera input (driver won't be ready in time)
  • Power management from Linux
  • SDIO WLAN
  • Audio

Personnel in Taiwan

  • Wad, Richard, and Mitch from OLPC
  • Gary, Bryan Ma from Quanta
  • Harald and BIOS/memory controller expert from Via

Tools

  • Cheetah SPI programmer qty 1 (Richard)
  • Artec LPC dongle (FLASH + port 80) qty 3 (Mitch 1, Richard 2)
  • Cleverscope qty 1 (Mitch)
  • PROMjet SPI FLASH emulator qty 1 (Mitch)
  • OLPC serial port dongles + cables qty 5 (Mitch 2, Richard 3)
  • High speed oscilloscope for memory checkout - (Quanta)

Sequence

  • Richard goes first, brings up EC and power rails with Gary & Bryan Ma.
  • Wad, Mitch, and Via BIOS/memory engineer arrive shortly thereafter, bring up memory controller
  • Harald arrives after OFW is working, brings up Linux
  • Team members work in parallel on their respective areas of expertise, hopefully with several boards