Re: [ECOS] Newbie - Help booting ECOS

["Nagendra EM" <nagendra dot em at eudoramail dot com>]

Hi Jon,
Thanks for the reply. I am trying it out with the new tool 2.0.2 alpha and also the new CVS source files.

regards,
- Nagendra.
 
--

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:54:58   Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>Jesper Skov wrote:
>> 
>> >>>>> "Nagendra" == Nagendra EM <nagendra.em@eudoramail.com> writes:
>> 
>> Nagendra> OK, I shall check it out now. But does that mean 1.3.1 does
>> Nagendra> not provide booting facility at all? Or is there any other
>> Nagendra> way to just boot the target and download the eCos image?
>> Nagendra> Because, we face lot of problems related to download speed
>> Nagendra> here.
>> 
>> eCos 1.3.1 is very old - I'm not even sure there's a properly working
>> PC HAL included in 1.3.1.
>
>It does work. But obviously anything about RedBoot doesn't apply to this
>release. If there's some reason for you (Nagendra) to 1.3.1, then you
>should build GDB stubs and put them on a floppy. Do this by building for
>the PC target with the stubs template. The procedure for putting on a
>floppy is the same as with RedBoot.
>
>But if you can use anonymous CVS then do. A lot has improved with the PC
>target.
>
>Jifl
>-- 
>Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062
>Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine
>Come to the Red Hat TechWorld open source conference in Brussels!
>Keynotes, techie talks and exhibitions    http://www.redhat-techworld.com/
>


Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com