On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:33:53AM +0530, Albert David wrote: > Friends, > I have been trying to find a solution to fix "PPC: timeout while > waiting for freeze" for my custom board. > BDI2000 keeps resetting the system with the following message... > > TARGET: processing user reset request > TARGET: resetting target passed > TARGET: processing target startup .... > *** TARGET: core #0 startup failed # PPC: timeout while waiting for freeze > TARGET: target will be restarted in 10 sec > > I tried all the possible solutions provided at > http://www.ultsol.com/faq-P206.htm for this perticular behaviour but > the problem remains same! > > I have ensured that my Board's JTAG interface is properly working by > boundary scanning the pins of PPC405EP using UniversalScan software > with Altera-ByteBlaster MV. > > for your information: twice i could succeed connecting BDI2000 with my > target! somehow it happen to work while i was trying to execute low > level JTAG commands such as 'rir' rdr' and then after exiting(JTAG > command shell of BDI) it worked, but there is no consistency! > > looks like my cpu core is not halting after asserting HALT line. > has anyone faced similar problem??
In _all_ cases I saw this problem it was a hw bug. Ask your hw engineers to help you. Start with the usual suspects: power, clocks, strapping, etc. I don't think working boundary scan is an indication that hw design is OK. -- Eugene
