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Chapter 4

Updating the Firmware

Your TX 3220 board comes from the factory with firmware that may not be the latest version. In order to guarantee that you have the latest firmware revision, you must proceed with the following steps for your operating system.

txflash -? After you have successfully burned a new firmware image into the TX 3220 board you must reset the board in order to execute the new firmware image. This is accomplished using the txreset.exe utility located in the \tektx\soft\util directory.
An example of this entire procedure is provided for TX Board # 1. This example specifies that the txflash utility will read the current contents of flash memory on TX Board # 1, save the contents in a file named oldfirmw.bin, then update the contents of flash memory from the file cpk3220.bin. C:\tektx\soft\cp>txflash -r oldfirmw.bin -w cpk3220.bin -b 1 TX32XX FLASH Interface Utility V1.0 Copyright 1997-8, Natural MicroSystems Reading FLASH to oldfirmw.bin... Writing FLASH from cpk3220.bin to board 1... Triggering FLASH BURN... <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> FLASH image successfully transferred to CP. C:\tektx\soft\cp>txreset -b 1 TX32XX Boot Utility V1.0 Copyright 1997-8, Natural MicroSystems CP number 1 booted. C:\tektx\soft\cp>

txflash -? After you have successfully burned a new firmware image into the TX 3220, you must reset the board in order to execute the new firmware image. This is accomplished using the txreset utility located in the /usr/bin/ directory.
An example of this entire procedure is provided for TX Board # 1. This example specifies that the txflash utility read the current contents of flash memory on TX Board # 1, save the contents in a file named oldfirmw.bin, then update the contents of flash memory from the file cpk3220.bin. # txflash -r oldfirmw.bin -w cpk3220.bin -b 1 TX32XX FLASH Interface Utility V1.0 Copyright 1997-8, Natural MicroSystems Reading FLASH to oldfirmw.bin... Writing FLASH from cpk3220.bin to board 1... Triggering FLASH BURN... <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> <block burned> FLASH image successfully transferred to CP. # txreset -b 1 TX32XX Boot Utility V1.0 Copyright 1997-8, Natural MicroSystems CP number 1 booted. #

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