AW: [ECOS] Question about boot loading and so on

[Hansjörg Petriffer <hpetriffer at grips dot com>]

Sorry for my stupidly question!

>You load the gdb_module from a floppy. Then the eCos test exes that were
>built with the default i386 configuration can be downloaded to the target
>PC over a serial line.

>Alternatively, you can create a new build directory, choose the default
>configuration for i386 but then change the configuration option
>"CYG_HAL_STARTUP" from RAM to FLOPPY. Then when you build the tests in that
>configuration, they _should_ be able to be written straight to floppy. A
>few people have reported some difficulties with this admittedly.

I'm sure that this is a fundamental question, but how I can wright straight
to floppy with win2k? Is this a form of start disk?


>> Until now I have found something in the case when I wan't use the gdb

>"wan't" -> "want to"? or "won't" ?

Sorry: want to

>> module.
>> Can anyone say me, where I can find more about that in the docu?

>The Getting started manual is the best guide (for some value of best :-/ -
>our docs are in need of an overhaul).

I take a look to this manuals but here is no description for the i386 and
there is nothing written about the floppy (i read only ways with rom and so
on, and this is not working with a normal pc motherboard).

I have now compiled it for floppy and here I see that the files have a size
about 300k. Is it also possible to make smaller files, because in my desired
application, Ram and Rom have to be as smallest as possible. 
I had read into the docu that the smallest kernel have a size about 10 til
20k, isn't it? Is the file here so big about the presence of a lot of
packages or have this something to do with the i386 pc target?

Thanks 
Hansjoerg