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GR-LEON4-ITX Development Board
Quick Start Guide
6
TROUBLESHOOTING AND FREQUENCY ASKED QUESTIONS
6.1 General
The performance of the system is less compared to what is advertised for LEON4
The advertised LEON4 performance figures typically come from systems that include a
Level-2 cache core. The GR-LEON4-ITX board and LEON4-ASIC-DEMO device were
constructed using a pre-release version of the LEON4 processor and the L2 cache core was
not available at this time. If you need to benchmark a system with a Level-2 cache, please
contact Aeroflex Gaisler.
I lost the contents of the USB Flash stick
Contact Aeroflex Gaisler for a possible download of the original stick contents, or a
replacement stick.
How do I restore the original PROM contents?
A copy of the original PROM contents is available in the GR-LEON4-ITX data package under
the directory
gr-l4itx-pack/prom
. The file
l4itx_prom.srec
can be written to the SPI boot
PROM using the GRMON commands:
spim flash detect
,
spim flash erase
,
spim flash load
l4itx_prom.srec
.
GRMON reports a system frequency of 100 MHz, should it not be 200 MHz?
The bus with most of the peripherals (AHB bus 1) runs at 100 MHz and the bus with the
LEON4 processors (AHB bus 0) runs at 200 MHz. GRMON connects bus 1 and also finds
the timer unit there, therefore GRMON reports the system frequency as 100 MHz, the
processor cores still run at 200 MHz.
6.2 Interfaces
Software freezes when initializing the Ethernet Interface
Software that relies on the MDIO interrupt for Ethernet PHY initialization may time out when
bringing up the Ethernet interface. This is an issue with some version of the Linux kernel
included in the SnapGear GNU/Linux distribution provided by Aeroflex Gaisler. A general
quick fix is to attach a network cable to each Ethernet port that is being initialized. The long
term fix is to contact the software vendor and ask for an update.
I have problem X when using the USB Debug Communication Link
The USB Debug Communication Link has a bug that leads to repeated accesses. This is a
problem when accessing register interfaces that are FIFOs, that is the interfaces are
affected by being read or written more than once with the same value. Therefore the USB
Debug communication link must not be used when interacting with a UART (for instance
when using the -u flag to GRMON) or using the SPIMCTRL or SPICTRL cores.
Also, jumper J10 17-18 (GPIO 43) must be installed at power-on for the USB DCL interface
to work.
The system freezes when using it together with my PCI device
The GRPCI core's PCI target interface included in the design has a bug that causes it to
perform bursts of infinite length if a PCI master performs a burst of eight or more words.
© Aeroflex Gaisler AB
June 2010, Rev. 0.2
