[ECOS] RedBoot: Intel bootblock build on big-endian

[Gary Thomas]

Actually, we're working on ways of removing all of this "magic"
anyway, so these problems should soon disappear.

On 14-Feb-2001 Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> Trying to build Intel boot-block flash support on big-endian
> ARM fails.  It looks like the special make commands that are
> done to generate PIC code don't pay attention to endian
> configuration.
> 
> Since I'm not running RedBoot in ROM anyway, I've modified the
> generic flash device and the Intel boot-block flash device to
> pay attention to whether or not CYG_HAL_STARTUP_ROM is set.  If
> not, it skips the copy-PIC-code-to-data-space stuff.
> 
> It builds cleanly, but I'm waiting to get a board with Intel
> flash so I can test it.  I'll submit a patch (with a Changelog
> entry!) once I'm satisfied that it works.
> 
> Anyway, people running from ROM on a big-endian ARM will need
> to fix the special "make" stuff in the CDL file.
> 
> -- 
> Grant Edwards
> grante@visi.com