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Re: AT91EB40 and RedBoot
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at chez-thomas dot org>
- To: Scott Dattalo <scott at dattalo dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 10 Jun 2002 10:33:55 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] AT91EB40 and RedBoot
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206100823100.25630-100000@ruckus.brouhaha.com>
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 09:29, Scott Dattalo wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Tim Drury wrote:
>
> >
> > I must be having similar problems to Scott. I tried doing ctrl-z after
> > uploading and (c)ontinuing redboot from gdb. When minicom comes
> > up I see nothing. I assume you are doing 'minicom -o' which skips past
> > modem initialization. Instead of ctrl-z should I completely exit gdb?
> > What kind of feedback are you supposed to get from the EB40 to confirm
> > you are talking to RedBoot? The 'RedBoot>' prompt?
>
>
> Tim,
>
>
> I strongly suspect that the RedBoot binary is corrupted in some way. The
> "corruption" may be due to a change in the EB40 evaluation board. My
> board, btw, is an EB40 V2.0 (rev sticker on the flash). I've grabbed the
> latest ECOS code from CVS and am planning to rebuild the RedBoot portion
> for the EB40 board.
>
> oh, and to answer your questions, I started minicom with the -o option. I
> also invoked gdb without the Insight gui, gdb -nw.
>
> Since we're in the same boat in this one, let's work together and get the
> problem solved.
Have you tried typing commands? RedBoot isn't going to just print
something when you connect with minicom - those bits have long vanished
into the air...
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