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RE: Port to XScale board



On 20-Aug-2001 Cristiano Ligieri Pereira wrote:
> 
> This 'dots' mean that something was being downloaded?
> 
> RedBoot> load -r -v -m xmodem -b 0x00060000                                    
> CC...........Can't load '': Timed out                                          
> RedBoot>                                                                       
> 
> Looks like it keeps timing out :-(

What had you done after the 'CC' but before the '....'?  You should
have instructed minicom to "send" the file at that point and it should
tell you something about what's going on.

I just tried this (without actually sending anything) and I saw:
   RedBoot> load -m xm -v
   CCCCCCCCC...........Can't load '': Timed out
The whole thing took about a minute.  The 'C' characters come out every
3-4 seconds.  These characters are RedBoot telling minicom (X-modem) to
send packets with a CRC style checksum. If nothing shows up after 10
tries, it backs off to using simple Xor checksums (the '.') character.

Bottom line: RedBoot is not seeing anything come from minicom.  When
you are typing, you should be entering something like:
  load -r -x xm -b 0x600000^M^As
where '^M' is enter/return, '^As' is Control-A followed by 's' which
tells minicom to start sending the file.  It's not automatic, you
have to start the transfer manually.


> 
> Cristiano.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Cristiano Ligieri Pereira - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~cpereira
> 
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 20-Aug-2001 Cristiano Ligieri Pereira wrote:
>> > 
>> > It's Linux. I'll try minicom. 
>> > 
>> 
>> Cool.  With 'minicom', just use ^A-S (send) directly from minicom, without
>> breaking out.  I also turn off the little file selection menu and just
>> enter the file name directly as RedBoot will most likely timeout before
>> you can go toodling around the menus and find the file you want to download.


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