Re: [ECOS] Redboot Installation

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

Rajeev murthy wrote:
> >
> >>   how board specific is the installation procedure of Redboot?
> >
> >In general, completely. How can you load programs onto the board? Does it
> >have FLASH to program (and if so, have you written a driver)? Or can you
> >program it with JTAG? Does it just have a socketed EPROM you can program?
> 
> for downloading the images, i have my own program-loader which is a variant of the SETTOP protocol.
> how much porting effort would it involve to make Redboot start communicating with the board.

If you want a figure I can't give you a straight answer. Your hardware may
have all sorts of idiosyncracies. But you could probably expect to get to
the point of having RedBoot doing output within a week depending on your
experience. It takes us (Red Hat) less in general, but we have a lot more
experience :-).

Jifl
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