From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
To: Ali Sina <replay688@hotmail.com>
CC: gary@mlbassoc.com, ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redboot vs GDB application download (ARM E7T)
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:34:07 -0400
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:45 +0000, Ali Sina wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there any difference between loading an application to RAM and
running it
> there via Redboot as opposed to via GDB?
>
> On the E7T with a ROM Redboot I observe the following:
> - loading the app to RAM via GDB and starting it (continue) works fine.
> Application has not crashed in months.
> - loading the same code to RAM via Redboot (load -m xmodem) and starting
it
> (go) will start the application but the systems hangs after a few
seconds.
>
> Anyone a clue as to why this could be happening?
>
The go command will turn off caches by default. Loading and running with
gdb won't turn off caches.
--Mark