Re: [ECOS] problem in ROM startup application execution

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Ravi Kumar B S wrote:
> 1. I could not understand what "redboot_inits" stands for.

inits=initializations. i.e. things that need to be initialized.

> 2. I have the cyg user start function in my code and it is calling the
> hal_if_diag_init() do i need to call CYGACC_CALL_IF_SET_CONSOLE_COMM the way
> redboot does. if so could you please let me know what exactly it does?
> 3. I saw
> CYG_HAL_TABLE_BEGIN( __RedBoot_INIT_TAB__, RedBoot_inits );
> CYG_HAL_TABLE_END( __RedBoot_INIT_TAB_END__, RedBoot_inits );
> these statements in main.c file in redboot/current/src directory. do i need
> to do these things if so what these things do? is there any document which
> explains these stuff.
> 4.do it need to add any of the startup code. or set the variables ram_start,
> ram_end, workspace_start, workspace_end, workspace_size ?

No you shouldn't need to do any of these. They are specific to RedBoot.

Jifl
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