The normal LED modes for the GC Plus CE bootloader are as follows:

• Outer Two LEDs ON, Center LED OFF
  Normal boot mode



• Center LED ON, Outer Two LEDs OFF
  Copying system files from CF card to onboard flash. Do not interrupt.

Known abnormal LED modes include:

• All On
  Indicates that system is not booting. LED driver inputs are floating.

1.84
ADS releases: 190110-8005C for 32MiB RAM 1/28/2004
- Can set background color at boot with the following entry:
0xC0000F1C 0x0000010E ; image rotation 5A=90 degrees, B4=180 deg, 10E=270 deg
- Can rotate boot/splash screen image with following entry:
0xC0000F18 0x000000FF ; background color FF

1.83
ADS releases: 190110-8005B for 32MiB RAM 3/28/2003
- Supports images larger than 16MiB
- CE image is loaded 2MiB above base of flash

1.82
ADS releases: 190110-8005A for 32MiB RAM 2/25/2003
- Changes the flash memory allocation, setting aside another 1 MiB for system files (specifically, for CE persistent registry)
- Automatically detects the size of the CE image and determines the location in RAM to which it should be loaded and executed. The boot no longer needs settings in ADSLOAD.HWT for this function, and can even tolerate errors in the settings if they are left in.

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Important: Change in Flash Memory Allocation

Beginning with boot 1.82, the storage location of the CE image in flash has changed. See details above for implications.

Transition Details:

It is possible to select flash disk start locations and lengths that overwrite the end of the CE image (which has moved up 1MiB in flash). It is still also possible to set the flash disk length such that it overwrites the beginning of flash.

Because this boot ROM is a significant departure from existing boot code, we will not generally use it in the existing CE 3.0 development systems. There is a good chance that existing CE 3.0 customers will have conflicts with the information already stored in flash as they transition between ROMs. It may also cause confusion with product already in the field.

Boot ROM 1.82 will work with CE 3.0 and CE.NET (4.x).

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1.81
ADS releases: 700110-80059 for 32MiB RAM 7/5/2002
- Initializes cache (requires CE build 3.35 or later)
- Initializes serial port TX lines as outputs to prevent oscillation/noise with some serial buffers

1.80 to 1.77
ADS releases: none
- boots faster
- boots CE from ATA card when DIP switch position 2 is ON

1.76
ADS releases: 700110-80055 32MiB RAM 2/28/2001
- Supports J3 flash
- Suppresses all debug port output output by setting DIP switch position 2 to ON