Re: [ECOS] redboot on IXDP425

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 20:06 +0300, Nickolay wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 17:13 +0100, jerzy dyrda wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:55, Mark Salter wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 18:47 +0300, Nickolay wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Mark Salter wrote:
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 18:17 +0300, Nickolay wrote:
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Hello Guys!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Anyone know, how i can install redboot on IXDP425 target?
> >>>>>>I has vxWorks bootloader installed, and i need rewrite them or boot
> >>>>>>redboot on them.
> >>>>>>            
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>The flash is socketed on the IXDP425, so you can use a device
> >>>>>programmer. The alternative is to use a jtag based flash
> >>>>>programmer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>--Mark
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>That's true!
> >>>>But maybe anyone know how load redboot via vxworks bootloader?
> >>>>Can i use redboot.bin for this purpose, or redboot.bin is for upgrade
> >>>>redboot from redboot the self?
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>redboot.bin is just a raw binary image. It needs to get programmed
> >>>to the start of flash. I'm not sure about the vxworks bootloader
> >>>capabilities.
> >>>
> >>>--Mark
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Hello 
> >>
> >>I heard from vxWorks guys - it isn't possibility to write image by vxWorks 
> >>bootloader and this bootloader don't configure hardware e.g PCI - Do you have 
> >>other loader?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Why not use the VxWorks loader to load a RAM version of RedBoot
> >(from ELF).  Then use that to load & program the FLASH (ROM) version.
> >
> >Mark - should this work? [it certainly does for most platforms]
> >
> >  
> >
> Yeah, if i can do it, it would be great!
> How i can load elf image from vxWorks loader?

Use the 'load' and then 'go' commands?

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