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Re: Serial support for arm board
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: "Dave B. Sharp" <daveb_sharp at yahoo dot ca>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:47:09 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Serial support for arm board
- References: <20051027184039.66283.qmail@web32910.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:40 -0400, Dave B. Sharp wrote:
> Ultimatately I am creating a wedge program to go
> between Linux and Redboot, so I want the program to
> operate in the same mode as Linux (i.e. with mmu,
> etc.).
You still haven't explained what this program is to do.
Why do you think you need a serial driver, etc?
What do you mean a "wedge between RedBoot and Linux?"
> Cheers
> Dave
>
> --- Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:20 -0400, Dave B. Sharp
> > wrote:
> > > I have an Arcom Viper PXA-255 Arm board with
> > Redboot
> > > and would like to create a simple "Hello World:
> > > application that I can "exec" (not go); I gather
> > there
> > > is no GDB support. I am guessing that this
> > probably
> > > going to require some sort of rudamentary serial
> > port
> > > driver support. Can anyone help w/ source code or
> > > pointers to info.
> >
> > What do you mean 'exec' instead of 'go'? The 'exec'
> > command
> > is really only designed for running Linux kernels.
> > The 'go'
> > command can be used for most anything else.
> >
> > If you explain why you're thinking on this path,
> > maybe we
> > can provide more data to help you along.
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