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RE: Newbie question: eCOS and Redboot for AT91SAM7S-EK
- From: "Wayne Liu" <Wayne dot Liu at prostorsystems dot com>
- To: "'Andrew Lunn'" <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- Cc: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:49:25 -0700
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Newbie question: eCOS and Redboot for AT91SAM7S-EK
Andrew and Oliver,
Thanks a lot for the information. I agree that RedBoot is not appropriate
for such a platform. I always built my own bootloaders on such smaller
embedded platform in the past. But was wondering if eCos must have RedBoot
installed for its HAL is from Redboot.
I am trying to install the CVS client and download eCos now.
Wayne
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:47 PM
To: Wayne Liu
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Newbie question: eCOS and Redboot for AT91SAM7S-EK
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:34:40PM -0700, Wayne Liu wrote:
>
> I am new to eCos and ran into some problems while trying to get started
with
> eCos and RedBoot ( I've searched through the mail archive, but wasn't able
> to much specific information):
>
> 1. I've found the eCos page which says that eCos and RedBoot has been
ported
> to the AT91SAM7S-EK eval board. But I cannot find any package information
> specific to this processor or eval board from that page.
>
> 2. The same eCos page also claims "Instructions for installing RedBoot on
> the at91sam7sT can be found in the RedBoot User's Guide. But I can't find
> any mentioning of AT92SAM7S in the RedBoot user's guide either.
>
> I am really confused how I can download and build eCos and RedBoot for my
> board. Can someone point me to the right direction? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated!
You need the latest eCos from anonymous CVS:
http://ecos.sourceware.org/anoncvs.html
Personaly, i don't recommend using Redboot with this system. I do all
my development using eCos ROM applications and JTAG for download and
gdb. This removes the need for RedBoot.
You are correct in that there are no instructions for installing
RedBoot. The webpage is generated automatically using server side
includes and i don't think i can turn that off.
Andrew
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