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Re: reboot and ecos basic questions
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- To: Robert V <bobv at austin dot rr dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:26:57 -0500
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: reboot and ecos basic questions
- References: <415806BF.5020407@austin.rr.com>
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:25:35AM -0500, Robert V wrote:
> I am new to ecos and have just installed the ecos-2.0
> distribution on my fedora core system. One question I have is
> about the redboot monitor. If you are using gdb and your
> target supports hardware debug through a something like a bdm
> port on a Freescale Coldfire-based device, why would you need
> Reboot?
You might not 'need' redboot. If you've got some other way to
load programs into RAM and/or flash ROM and do debugging, then
you could get by without it. Redboot is an awfully handy way
to be able to do things like update flash through a serial
port.
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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