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Re: building redboot with eCos eernel
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: Michael Jastrebtsoff <jam2000 at pisem dot net>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 21 May 2004 12:24:48 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] building redboot with eCos eernel
- References: <1557427993.20040521174204@pisem.net>
Michael Jastrebtsoff <jam2000@pisem.net> writes:
> Hello, All.
>
> I need to build Redboot with FAT support. But FAT requires eCos
> kernel.
>
> I try build Redboot with eCos kernel, but this don't work.(when i
> connected to redboot via terminal, i'v got a random chars on screen.)
The FAT filesystem will not work in RedBoot since it requires too many
kernel facilities to work. You cannot put the kernel into RedBoot
since RedBoot is intended to be a stand alone application, there are
just too many assumptions for this to work.
The only use that RedBoot would have for FAT filesystem support is to
load executables. So a simple read-only loader similar to the one that
already exists for ext2 would be a better solution.
--
Nick Garnett eCos Kernel Architect
http://www.ecoscentric.com The eCos and RedBoot experts
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