[ECOS] EDB7211-2 downloading in Win2k

[Gary Thomas]

On 04-Jun-2001 Trenton D. Adams wrote:
> This isn't a specific question to eCos or RedBoot, and I apologize for that.
> I can't seem to find any other resources on the net that might have the
> required information.
> 
> I haven't been able to test the download.exe program with the board hooked
> up yet because I don't have access to it at the moment. However, I have ran
> the download.exe program with the correct parameters, and it simply crashes.
> Is this normal on Windows 2000/NT? Is there a different download program for
> these versions of windows? If so, where can I get it? If not, would this
> happen just because the board isn't hooked up?
> 

We don't have anything to do with that program, sorry.  Have you tried asking
Cirrus Logic about your problems?

> I'm trying to figure out how to get RedBoot and eCos running before actually
> having access to the EDB7211-2 board, and this would obviously be the first
> step.
> I'm sorry if there is already an answer in the archives, but I couldn't find
> it.

We do have an equivalent program which was created under Linux.  I've not tried,
but you can probably get it to work via CygWin instead of using the Cirrus
program.