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a couple of questions on redboot for the PC


What's the conv=sync parameter to dd for?  There's no need to pad NULs
to ibs-size, is there?

I'm not sure how eCos is setup, but I have an interesting idea.

I was thinking, the image of RedBoot could be loaded into a reserved
part of RAM.  Then, once this is done, hook Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart eCos
from that image instead of restart the computer?  Some part of RAM could
be reserved for this image.  Wouldn't it be as simple as creating a boot
sector that does this, and then continuing to load eCos normally?  We
could reserve the boot sector for the program that does this!

That would be a lot faster booting! :)  Maybe it's already been done?


Trenton D. Adams
Embedded Developer
Windows Developer
Extreme Engineering Ltd.
Calgary Alberta

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