RE: [ECOS] Rebuilding RedBoot for EDB7212

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

On 14-Jun-2001 Stefano Costa wrote:
> On 14 Jun 2001, at 4:26, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> <SKIP>
>> 
>> > for EP7xxx. Flashing the image that I get with this build, it seems
>> > that RedBoot is only able to connect with serial line and download
>> > an application to RAM, but it has no Ethernet and FLASH support even
>> > if the related checkboxes are highlighted in the ConfigTool. Did
>> > anyone face the same problem?
>> 
>> That's because you didn't include the drivers for any of these
>> devices.
> 
> I'm using is the graphical Config Tool (1.3.1.2) for Windows; I 
> choose the "Cirrus Logic EDB7XXX" template, with the RedBoot 
> set of packages. Then I set EP7212 as a processor and ROM as a 
> startup enviroment. Examining the configuration, yes I noticed that 
> "Cirrus Logic ethernet driver" and "Cirrus Logic EDB7XXX FLASH 
> memory support" sections are greyed out, but I didn't find any 
> dependency to enable them. Why?
> 

You have to add the enabling packages, e.g. 'flash' to get the
flash driver to be turned on.

> 
>> 
>> Follow the instructions in the RedBoot manual for rebuilding:
>> 
>>   % ecosconfig new edb7212 redboot
>>   % ecosconfig import
>>   ${ECOS_REPOSITORY}/hal/arm/edb7xxx/current/misc/edb7212_redboot_ROM.
>>   ecm % ecosconfig tree % make
>> 
>> 
> 
> So, should I build RedBoot only from command line, and not from 
> the graphical tool?
> 

No, you can import the ".ecm" file from the GUI tool just as well
as from the command line.