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Re: Re: Can eCos run RAM-startup on MIPS MALTA board?
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: iztok dot zupet at vsr dot si
- Cc: "Jimmy Zhang" <jzhang at elmic dot com>, <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>, <embeddedeng at hotmail dot com>
- Date: 06 Nov 2002 14:32:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Can eCos run RAM-startup on MIPS MALTA board?
- References: <00f401c28538$b6478b40$cbf0630c@riverside><200211061004.32236.iztok.zupet@vsr.si>
Iztok Zupet <iztok.zupet@vsr.si> writes:
> On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:03, Jimmy Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I saw the following discussions regarding MIPS board. And want to make sure
> > one thing:
> >
> > my ecos.ecc has this line:
> >
> > #Startup type
> > #Currently only ROM startup type is supported.
> > cdl_component CYG_HAL_STARTUP
> > {
> > ...
> >
> > Is this true? Anybody has ever built RAM images for MIPS Malta board?
>
> Guess it's true. I don't know much about Malta boards, but it seems that in
> the time the eCos port was done, there must have been some reason for not
> implementing a RAM target.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
Initially the Malta board port was for RedBoot only. So that comment
is probably a hang over from that. The Malta eCos port was never
official -- no customer ever paid for it -- so it was never fully
tested and was only done in spare moments. So there may be lurking
problems in it.
--
Nick Garnett - eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.eCosCentric.com/
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