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Re: Adding Ethernet support for Redboot on the E7T
Right,
for big image, ethernet is a nice way to download owing to fast.
But the size of redboot become larger also.
At usual, developing an embedded application, it is better if
dividing that into several parts. After all parts are done, put them all
together and test that. This is the procedure I do here.
So the size of image is not too large to keep you waiting while developing
each part.
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Farine" <acnrf@dial.eunet.ch>
To: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Adding Ethernet support for Redboot on the E7T
Chris Garry <chris_garry@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> --- Simon <simoncc@ms46.url.com.tw> wrote:
> > I think using redboot via serial is better solution and I
> > do not recommand doing that via ethernet.
> > 'Cause it's a little bit complex to set up the development
> > environment.
> > And it's a little bit strange behavior appeared on redboot
> > I ever found.
> > So serial port is nice and enough.
> >
> > Simon
>
> Thanks for that Simon.
>
> What does everyone else on the list think about this? Is
> it worth bothering with ethernet support in Redboot?
It depends on the size of the applications you need to download. For an
application of about 2Mb, I prefer to load it via Ethernet rather than
serial. You can configure your application to include the GDB stubs and make
it
call the breakpoint() function where appropriate (such as at the beginning
or
from the assert macro). You load it from RedBoot via Ethernet, start it and
then
connect to the GDB stub via serial to debug it.
Robin
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> Chris
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