[ECOS] RedBoot: Restarting a program without reseting the ta

[Gary Thomas]

On 07-Nov-2000 Bart Veer wrote:
>     Gary> However, once in GDB, sending the string "$k#6b" (without
>     Gary> quotes of course) will kill the GDB session and should
>     Gary> restart RedBoot.
> 
> Out of interest, what is the definition of "restart" in this context?
> Ideally there would be some code in each platform HAL to reset the
> various chips as much as possible and get back to a coherent state.
> Obviously this cannot be achieved 100% on all platforms, but getting
> close would be useful.

That's exactly what's meant.  Each platform has the notion of reset,
defined by the HAL, which is supposed to mean "put the system back into
a state similar to power-on or pressing reset".  On some platforms we
have hardware support for this and it works very well.  On others, we
default to just jumping into the start of the ROM environment.