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8 power-on self test, Table 5-3, Post result format – Artesyn ATCA-F120 Installation and Use (August 2014) User Manual

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5.8

Power-On Self Test

When the ATCA-F120 is booted, U-boot executes a series of Power-On Self test (POST)
routines. They check the functionality of different controllers and other on-board resources.
The result of the POST is stored in memory and has the following format.

The results of POST are also stored in the environment variable post_result.

/dev/mtd12

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Table 5-2 Linux Devices (continued)

Linux Device Name

Content

Memory Area

Hardware Device

Table 5-3 POST Result Format

Offset Description

0x0

Magic word: 0xAA55FCE0

0x04

CRC32 checksum over the POST result string

0x08

POST result string.
This is a zero-terminated string which is based on the
following XML-like syntax:

[[Error_description]*]*

tag

identifies the device that was tested. If no POST error

was detected, then the closing tag follows
immediately after the opening tag.

Error_Description

contains an error description of

the corresponding tag. Note that the tags can be
nested, if for example several subtests are performed in
one device. See the following example.

Address line

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