On 2015/06/07 11:43 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> The pogoplug that I have is dead. The serial port has no output and
>> the led doesn't flash.
> >From the user manual for the Kirkwood CPU:
>
> 24.2.5.2 UART0 Sensing
>
>        Before starting a specific boot sequence indicated by the
>        bootstrap, the bootROM tries to sense the UART0 interface, to
>        detect a user request for entering bootROM command line debug
>        mode or a request to boot from UART, using the Xmodem protocol.
>
> ...
>
>        If the bootROM detects the 64-bit UART boot pattern (0xBB 0x11
>        0x22 0x33 0x44 0x55 0x66 0x77) injected by the user, as an
>        indication to start the Xmodem protocol and the UART boot
>        process); it configures the appropriate MPPs to operate as
>        UA0_RXD and UA0_TXD, as in the previous sub-section and starts
>        the Xmodem protocol to load the image from UART to the DDR.
>
> kwboot sends this 0xBB 0x11 0x22 0x33 0x44 0x55 0x66 0x77 code. The
> CPU will then wait for code to be downloaded and it will then execute
> it. So use kwboot to download u-boot....
>
> http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?3,7852,7852
>
> This says some pogoplugs work with kwboot, others don't. Give it a go
> and see.
>
>      Andrew
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I have the Seagate Dockstar that the page states is not-working. I will 
still try it out and see if it works. Thanks for the info and link.

Joseph

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