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Re: confusion regarding ROM build for e7t


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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