On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > Myles Watson wrote: > > > Just for my interest, but why does someone need to power on a > > > system while holding the reset button? > > > > In this case it is to allow my FPGA time to initialize (or for me > > to reprogram it) before the Opteron tries to set up HyperTransport > > communication with it. > > For an ugly hack<tm> maybe it would work to pulse the reset.
Maybe. I'd have to use a signal generator, though. HyperTransport initialization is pretty fast. > Do the two boards have the same chipset? > Yes, they're both nvidia ck804 + amd 8131. They have different superIOs, though. The soft_reset and hard_reset code is in the ck804 code. Thanks, Myles
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