Re: [ECOS] Building dl_edb7xxx for cygwin?

["Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe at larwe dot com>]

> > Since I now have to run in WinNT, I can't use the Cirrus flash downloader
> > app to get my ROM-built eCos app onto my board.
>
>They don't provide a flash downloader that works in NT? Poor.

Ummm... remember how much I gripe about cygwin not working properly inside 
Win9x? It is SOP for chip vendors not to supply tools for anything other 
than DOS, since in DOS you have real hardware access. It so happens that 
many of these tools also work inside a DOS box in Win9x. Most of them do 
not work inside WinNT and that is why I would like to see cygwin and the 
eCos configuration tool work fully inside Win9x. But "whatever"... this is 
not my problem right now :)

> > io.c:139: `FIONREAD' undeclared (first use in this function)
>
>I think you may be able to get away with changing CharReady to always
>return 1, at the expense of it being in a busy loop.

This doesn't work, because dl_edb7xxx.c flushes the input queue with:

while (CharReady(lPort))
{
cChar = ReceiveChar(lPort);
}

This code hangs with your suggested change.

If I comment out that "flush input queue" code (it occurs twice in 
dl_edb7xxx.c) I get something that looks like it's working but I'm not sure 
if it really is (for instance, the "loading code" count doesn't get to 100% 
and the board doesn't boot after the download is complete).

Experimenting some more here... will post results.

BTW, I've given up again on trying to build thumb-supporting gcc so I can't 
try to reproduce the eCos build error with thumb enabled. The people on the 
gcc list don't really know either.

I really do suggest you update the Windows install instructions for eCos to 
state that current gcc snapshots can't be compiled in cygwin right now and 
therefore the thumb target isn't supported on that dev host... it would 
save others the hours of experimentation I've tried.

=== Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer)
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