Intel ARM Assabet/Neponset eval board CPLD update notes
brad@heeltoe.com

caveats: the "phase2" (possibly rev2) Nepponset boards have a bug in
the Neponset CPLD which makes the 91C96 not work (register accesses
are corrupted).  If you have a rev2 board you need to update the CPLD
with the the cable which plugs into the Neponset J8 socket, Xilinx
XPLA programming software and files from Intel.  Note that the CPLD
update files on the Intel's web site won't program an 3128A CPLD.
You'll need to contact Intel to get the right files (at least I did).

(aside: I've collected the 'right files' in a tar file; neponset.tar)

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Linux ethernet driver note:

If anyone is interested, I have the 91c96 working on the
Assabet/Neponset board.  Before I got it work I had to update the
Neponset CPLD (the "giant PAL") via the jtag port.  This was made more
difficult because my board has a 3128A CPLD and the files on the Intel
web site are for a 3128 CPLD and the Xilinx programmer would not
program the part (it would erase it, however, thank-you-very-much ;-)