Re: [ECOS] Embedded PC SBC

[j dot d dot charlton at ieee dot org]

Patrick and ecos-discuss,

I am forging ahead with the ecos i386-pc build.  I think I set
everything up the way Patrick's html files described it starting from
the ecos-1.2.1.tar distribution tree.  I am building using RedHat
6.0. I first untarred only the latest file: hal-i386-pc-19991028.tgz
I got the error below.  I decided to go back and untar the initial
release (hal-i386-pc-0.1.tar) followed by the second release 
(hal-i386-pc-19991022.tgz) and then the final version
(hal-i386-pc-19991028.tgz) just in case it was meant to be done that
way, but I still get the same error when building the gdb stub:

[charlton@marble ecos-i386-stub]$ tclsh ~/cygnus/ecos-1.2.1/packages/pkgconf.tcl \
> --target i386 \
> --platform pc \
> --startup floppy \
> --disable-kernel \
> --disable-uitron \
> --disable-libc \
> --disable-libm \
> --disable-io \
> --disable-io_serial \
> --disable-wallclock \
> --disable-watchdog
pkgconf fatal error: The file /home/charlton/cygnus/ecos-1.2.1/packages/packages \
lists a package CYGPKG_HAL_ARM_CL7211 which should be present in \
/home/charlton/cygnus/ecos-1.2.1/packages/hal/arm/cl7211. This package is missing.
[charlton@marble ecos-i386-stub]$ 

Any help is appreciated.

--John


On  7 Jan, Patrick O'Grady wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, J.D.:
> 
> I posted an i386/PC HAL package;
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/contrib.html has a pointer to it.  The
> last time I updated it was the end of October, so don't be suprised if the
> eCos source code has changed quite a bit--installation might not be as
> straightforward as before.  I'm actually planning on updating to the
> current CVS version next week.  Look out for a bug somewhere in the mutex
> handling code: I'm sure it's related to the interrupt handler code.  Stay
> tuned for that fix.  But in the meantime, that package allows you to
> construct a GDB stub on a floppy disk, so you just boot from that and then
> connect to the debugger from COM1.  If you have any significant problems,
> just e-mail questions to this list, that way everyone benefits from the
> discussion.  Cheers!
> 
> -patrick
> patrick@softprocess.com
> 
>