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RE: porting ecos on ec555 light
- From: "Aakash Jain" <ajain at syseng dot anu dot edu dot au>
- To: <bob dot koninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
- Cc: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:26:25 +0200
- Subject: [ECOS] RE: porting ecos on ec555 light
Hi Bob,
>> I followed the instructions for rebuilding redboot and generated the
>> .elf redboot (ROM version) image. The problem now is that the elf
file
>> is 593.1KB, much bigger than the internal flash of the MPC555 of
448KB.
>> So, now my problem is: a) how strip or section the elf and convert to
a
>> binary image, and b) then download it onto the flash memory. Can I
use
>> the NVM GMD provided by Motorola to do so? If so, how?
> a) powerpc-eabi-objcopy -O binary redboot.elf redboot.bin
> You have been reading the documentation, have you ?
> b) don't know this NVM GMD thing
How do you download the ROM version of Redboot into the flash memory
then? Did you write your own code or are there any drivers or flash
programmers for the MPC555 available?
Best,
Aakash
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