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RE: building ROM stub for RAM image- EDB7212
- To: AshCan at aol dot com
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] building ROM stub for RAM image- EDB7212
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:37:50 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
On 12-Sep-2000 AshCan@aol.com wrote:
> A while back Gary Thomas sent me a GDB stub that set up the MMU to make use of the internal SRAM
> of the EP7212 since I was using an image loaded to board DRAM.
>
> Can anyone help me with instructions on how to build the stub so I can add functionality to it?
>
> I see that ecos.ecc wants me to build a ROM image with stub or RAM image and use the stub Gary
> provided for me. From what I can see I can not build the stub based on a RAM image.
>
> The reason I want to create my own stub is that I want to add a boot loader to the stub. I want
> my stub to read an image also stored in flash ROM and copy the image to DRAM since DRAM is faster
> in cases of cache misses.
>
I can help you with these things. However, I think you'd be best
served by upgrading to use RedBoot instead.
RedBoot is our new embedded debug and bootstrap environment. Based on
the eCos HAL, it provides all of the functionality you are looking for
and much more. Even though it is already available via anonCVS, it
will be formally announced [and shown off] at ESC West later this month.