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Regarding Floppy Startup
- From: "George Mathew" <georgemathewkar at rediffmail dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: george at atinav dot com
- Date: 27 May 2002 06:06:41 -0000
- Subject: [ECOS] Regarding Floppy Startup
- Reply-to: "George Mathew" <georgemathewkar at rediffmail dot com>
Hi all
I've been working on eCos to make the floppy startup a
reality for a couple of weeks.
From the docs that i got from net i concluded the folowing
things
1 ] We can store the image which contains "application +
eCos" on
ROM/Flash/RAM/Floppy as per our need.[The storage media
differs according to the startup we are selecting]
2] The standard to do this is to connect the target device
with the host using GDB.
After doing this we can use the 'load' command to
transfer the image to the target.
3] This transfered image is stored in the RAM of the target
at first.Now the programmer is
responsible for redirecting it to the correct storage
media like ROM/flash ..using the
"fis" command
Am I correct?
Now i will tell you where I'm now.
I successfully make the sample's given in the example
directory working, using RAM start up on i386.
Now i tried to do the same thing with Floppy startup.But
it's not working..since i386 platform
not supports "fis" command I'm not able to go further.
My assumption is ..in floppy startup, after loading, the
full image will be writen on to floppy
so that when the system is rebooting our application will
be triggered.
Should i need to do anything explicitly, after "load" command
for this to happen?[There's no fis in i386]
Thanks in advance
Regards
George
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