Gateworks is proud to announce JTAG programming support for the Ventana family of Single Board Computers. This support allows precompiled binaries that include the kernel, bootloader, and root filesystem to be flashed via Gateworks JTAG software onto any Ventana board. This is valuable as it is the most simple way to load new software and updates onto the board. The same JTAG software is also backwards compatible with all previous Gateworks boards. This release is limited to Linux and provides programming support and does not include upload or verify support. Ventana is unique in that it is the first family to use NAND flash which requires additional routines to handle bad blocks.
The new JTAG Linux executables, can be found on the Gateworks Software Wiki:
http://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/jtag_instructions#JTAGExecutables
To find the most current and up to date prebuild binary images of OpenWrt for Ventana:
http://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/ventana/openwrt#Step2.InstallingFirmware
Gateworks Support Team