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Re: Re: Re: compile redboot error for AT91EB40
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: shouyi <shouyi00 at mails dot tsinghua dot edu dot cn>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 11 Aug 2002 15:21:03 -0600
- Subject: Re: Re: Re: [ECOS] compile redboot error for AT91EB40
- References: <20020811161410.15190138F@hermes.chez-thomas.org>
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 02:18, shouyi wrote:
> Gary Thomas:
>
> thx, the board which I used is very familer with AT91EB40, it is just the EB40 board added 8019 and usb client,
>
> so I want to port redboot to this board :)
>
> If I just remark " #error ", is there any harm to redboot?
>
> And in "Redboot user's Guide", it is said
>
> " exec - Execute a Linux kernel image
>
> NOTE: This command is not available for all platforms. Its availability is indicated in specific platform information in
>
> Chapter 5.", is it available for AT91EB40?
>
I would say "no". I really doubt that you want to run Linux on
this hardware (more accurately, I'd be more than surprised if you
*could* run Linux on it). So, it makes sense to just leave out
that command. I told you yesterday how to make that happen.
Then you will be able to build a RedBoot for your platform.
>
> 2002-08-11 08:14:00 you write:
> >On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 13:00, shouyi wrote:
> >> Gary Thomas:
> >>
> >> but I need the function booting linux, is there some method else?
> >>
> >
> >Then you need to define CYGARC_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS(x), which typically
> >lives in plf_io.h.
> >
> >Just how do you expect to run Linux on such a platform, which has
> >such limited capabilities (no MMU, virtually no RAM, no networking)?
> >
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