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Re: Serial support for arm board
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: "Dave B. Sharp" <daveb_sharp at yahoo dot ca>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:26:25 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Serial support for arm board
- References: <20051027182044.59980.qmail@web32910.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:20 -0400, Dave B. Sharp wrote:
> I have an Arcom Viper PXA-255 Arm board with Redboot
> and would like to create a simple "Hello World:
> application that I can "exec" (not go); I gather there
> is no GDB support. I am guessing that this probably
> going to require some sort of rudamentary serial port
> driver support. Can anyone help w/ source code or
> pointers to info.
What do you mean 'exec' instead of 'go'? The 'exec' command
is really only designed for running Linux kernels. The 'go'
command can be used for most anything else.
If you explain why you're thinking on this path, maybe we
can provide more data to help you along.
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