Mon, 06 Dec 2010
U-Boot 1.3.1c for Sam440ep released
Bassano del Grappa, Italy - 6 December 2010
ACube Systems is pleased to announce yet another new release of the U-Boot firmware for its line of motherboards Sam440ep and Sam440ep-flex.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed wrong setting for the MMUCR register
- Introduced a new Video Option: Console. Setting it to “Silent” will produce a more nice looking boot screen (see picture below)
- On Sam440ep-flex: if a SiliconMotion 502 is present, and it's not set as primary video card, the SM502 I/O and MEM access are disabled in PCI_COMMAND register after initialization. This prevent some problems when booting AOS4.1 in a dual gfx card setup.
- On Sam440ep-mini: if a Radeon PCI card is present, and the onboard video card is not set as primary video card, the onboard video card I/O and MEM access are disabled in PCI_COMMAND register after initialization. This prevent some problems when booting AOS4.1 in a dual gfx card setup.
- Solved a problem when assigning IRQ to a video card behind a PCI to PCI Express bridge (RadeonHD)
- Video unit and Sprite unit are switched off on SM502
- Solved a problem with the Blitter unit registers not reset to default values at powerup on SM502
- Now it's possible to set baudrate to 230400 and 307200 bps (for faster debug output)
- Changed boot logo
- Reduced font size
The updated installation guide describes in detail the usual installation method (ISO image) and alternative methods (TFTP).
You can download installation archives from:
- Sam440ep: http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=1
- Sam440ep-flex: http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=2
Additional information:
Please note: UBoot and UBoot updater makes use of GPL code and thus are both published under GPL.
The sources can be downloaded from:
- http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=1
- http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=2
or, using a direct link, from: