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Re: confusion regarding ROM build for e7t
- From: "Gary D. Thomas" <gary dot thomas at mind dot be>
- To: F dot T dot Nilsson at hw dot ac dot uk
- Cc: ecoss discussion forum <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 01 Jun 2003 05:43:05 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] confusion regarding ROM build for e7t
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- References: <1054467466.3ed9e58aeacb2@wmail2.hw.ac.uk>
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 05:37, F.T.Nilsson@hw.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I posted a question a week ago about building a target application that
> would run at start up (ROM). I however got a bit confused. 1 answerer told
> me to look at the how RedBoot is generated and use this to generate the
> check sum needed for angel. Is this still needed if I will load the
> application with RedBoot? If I have RedBoot installed all I should have to
> do is change the memory layout? (MLT) if I am right about this could anyone
> point me to any documentation about changing the mlt?
>
> If I cannot get the ROM start up to work is there any way that I could use
> the RAM start-up to demonstrate the application, without using gdb?
Of course & it'll be much simpler.
Just create a RAM startup application (this is the default).
Then use RedBoot to download the application into memory and type 'go'.
For example, if you have a network setup, you can:
RedBoot> load -m tftp application
RedBoot> go
--
Gary D. Thomas <gary.thomas@mind.be>
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