Re: host tool to control RedBoot

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Mark Salter wrote:
> I've thrown together a fairly simple utility which I use
> to download images to RedBoot. It runs on Linux (a port
> to cygwin should be straightforward) and you can use it
> to download an image to RAM/flash over serial or tcp with
> a single command from a shell prompt. It uses xyzModem
> over serial or ethernet, so no tftp server is needed.
Does it indirectly invoke "sx" possibly with "--tcp-server"? I'd hope so, 
because of having a different x/y-modem ipmlementation to maintain might 
be annoying :-).

> Its in an ugly state right now, but I'm thinking of cleaning
> it up and adding it to CVS under the ecos/host hierarchy. Does
> this sound like something others would be interested in?
It sounds potentially interesting - certainly it might be something to 
point people at when they have problems with any of the other routes, 
although I think _strictly_ the most appropriate place for it would be in 
a new redboot/current/host/ directory, since it is associated with the 
redboot package. Go for it. If you haven't already, and I just haven't 
read enough mail yet :-).

Jifl
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