Is there anything I can test?, I know I did that experiment a few months ago, bumping up the supply voltage and what not.  I was seeing an instability while running on 5V. I haven't tried to power up the devboard while limiting the CPU to a lower clock frequency. 

I'm also still using an older kernel where the PVR is working properly, so I haven't played with any of the newer kernels yet.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Michael Mrozek <EvilDragon@openpandora.org> wrote:
Hi,

as Nikolaus is currently working on improving the voltage connections
on the CPU board, it came to our mind that the EVM (which we based our
design on) also might have some bugs.

Unfortunately, I don't have an EVM here anymore (it's at the
touchscreen manufacturers place so they could test the screen), so I
can't help, but as I know some here have an EVM and / or an IGEPv5,
maybe you can help.

Here are the issues Nikolaus had that occur both on the EVM AND on the
Pyra.

* Unstable at 1,5GHz. Crashes under high-load and when doing memtest.
* Doesn't properly reboot after a reset

As far as I know, the instability only happens whn using an 5V adaptor
on the EVM (at least I ran it under high-load with a 12V AC adaptor for
quite a while).
Can someone test and confirm this?
Also, does memtest (maybe Nikolaus can provide the compiled binary for
that) also crash when using 5V?

The reboot... yes, I've seen that. I remember I always had plug out the
power of the EVM completely, otherwise, it never really rebooted.

Has anyone looked into this?
Does this still happen or does anyone know why? And if yes, does that
happen on the igepV5 as well?

It's interesting that our Pyra boards behave a bit like the EVM when
powered with 5V. I hope there's no bug in the power-supply circuit
which we cloned into our CPU board.

Thanks for any help here :)

Of course, Nikolaus is welcome to add some comments in case I've
forgotten something.


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