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Re: running eCos apllication from floppy
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 07:11 +0530, Rohan Soman wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> >
> > booting from floppy. Nothing seems to go wrong ,
> >
> > but the screen, after booting, remains blank.
> >
> > What possibly cud be the problem?
>
> Did you select the screen as your output device?
> Set CYGNUM_HAL_VIRTUAL_VECTOR_CONSOLE_CHANNEL_DEFAULT to 2
An alternative approach is to simply connect a null-modem cable
between your host and COM1 of the target and then use minicom to
monitor it. By default eCos apps use serial channel 0 for output and
ignore the screen -- not many embedded systems have displays after
all.
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