[ECOS] Installing Redboot/eCos on the Atmel EB40(A) (Solved)

[Ian McKee]

Thanks Dirk and Ricardo,

Like you suggested, my problem was that I was building for the EB40, not the 
EB40A, which is the dev board actually in my posession.  I now have redboot 
installed on the Flash alongside Angel and I'll start trying to do things 
with eCos!

-Ian

>have you really tried building for the EB40A target, not for the EB40, that 
>has a completely different memory layout?
>If you are using ecos 2.0, there is no EB40A support included. You have to 
>get the latest CVS (or an ftp snapshot from


>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: [ECOS] Installing Redboot/eCos on the Atmel EB40(A) (10-Dez-2003 
>6:25)
>From:    mrianmckee@hotmail.com
>To:      ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm new to both the eCos/Redboot community and the Arm community, so 
>please
> >
> > bear with me and my noob questions.  :)
> >
> > I am trying to learn how to use the GNU toolchain to develop embedded
> > software for the ARM target, because 1) I prefer open-source tools and 
>2)
> > although buying an IDE (GNU or non-GNU) would be easier, it sure would 
>be
> > expensive!  I have GNU tools experience with non-embedded *nix software 
>and
> >
> > with the embedded Atmel AVR target.
> >
> > Towards this end I am trying to install Redboot/Ecos on my Atmel EB40A
> > board, and as I understand it the first thing I need to do is get 
>Redboot
> > into Flash according to these instructions:
> >
> > http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/docs-latest/ref/at91.html
> >
> > I can successfully build the Redboot RAM, ROM, and RAMROM images using 
>the
> > eCos graphical configtool, but when I follow the instructions at the 
>above
> > URL, this is what my session looks like:
> >
> > [oberheim@localhost bin]$ pwd
> > /home/oberheim/ecos/ecos-work/redboot_RAM/redboot_RAM_install/bin
> > [oberheim@localhost bin]$ ls
> > redboot.bin  redboot.elf  redboot.img  redboot.srec
> > [oberheim@localhost bin]$ arm-elf-gdb redboot.elf
> > GNU gdb 5.3 (eCosCentric)
> > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
> > are
> > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> > conditions.
> > Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for 
>details.
> > This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu 
>--target=arm-elf"...
> > (gdb) tar rdi s=/dev/ttyS0
> > Angel Debug Monitor (serial) 1.04 (Advanced RISC Machines SDT 2.5) for
> > AT91EB40A (1.00)
> > Angel Debug Monitor rebuilt on Feb 03 2002 at 16:09:59
> > Serial Rate:   9600
> > Connected to ARM RDI target.
> > (gdb) set $cpsr=0xd3
> > (gdb) load
> > Loading section .rom_vectors, size 0x40 lma 0x2020000
> > RDI_write: data abort, no memory at specified address?
> > RDI_write: data abort, no memory at specified address?
> > Memory access error while loading section .rom_vectors.
> > (gdb) doh
> > Undefined command: "doh".  Try "help".
> > (gdb)
> >
> > After a bit of googling I suspect that these RDI_write errors occur 
>because
> >
> > the RAM image is being loaded into an address which does not physically
> > exist.  Is this correct?  What can I do to get past this error?
> >
> > My development box is an up-to-date RedHat 8.0 box, with the latest eCos
> > distribution.  Please let me know if any more information would be 
>useful
> > to
> > help resolve my problem.   Also let me know if this is the proper venue 
>for
> >
> > this question, or if I should post somewhere else.
> >
> > I'd really like to get started developing on this ARM platform and I'll
> > appreciate any input you all can give me!
> >
> > -Ian McKee
> >

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