Re: [ECOS] How useful CygMon can be?

[Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> Cristiano Ligieri Pereira writes:

> Hi all,

> I have a Intel XScale based board (80200EVB aka LRH) and Cygmon source
> code for this board. The board comes with Cygmon image in it. I have two
> questions:

> 1. Is it possible to use cygmon to load an eCos application since GDB
> stubs is implemented in it? (from previous messages I understand that
> RedBoot replaced Cygmon, which is deprecated, but in this case I don't
> have Redboot and need to get eCos running on the Board as quick as
> possible)

Yes, you should be able to use cygmon for downloading eCos code. You
don't need to use gdb. You can also download an ELF or S-record file
from the cygmon command line.

> 2. How can I use Cygmon source code to speed up porting RedBoot in the
> case I cannot use Cygmon to load an application? As far as I understand
> all the initialization code can be reused as well as the GDB stubs
> routines. What else? 

I don't know how useful the cygmon sources will be. The best place to
start would be the existing eCos XScale port on the Cyclone IQ80310.

--Mark