[ECOS] RedBoot load problem

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 09:47, Martin Schoeberl wrote:
> I'm using an old 486 notebook for first tests. I've installed the eCos
> version from the book 'Embedded Software Dev. w. eCos'. Everything works
> fine till the download of the first example via Hyperterminal. The download
> starts but after about 20KB it stops and host and traget run into timeouts.
> 
> Martin

I found that I needed to apply this patch to get serial downloads to
work in any useful way on my i386 target boards. I'm not sure why they
were disabled (I think someone told me but I can't remember that long
ago), but everything works fine for me with them turned on.

Ian.

Index: hal/i386/pcmb/current/src/pcmb_serial.c
===================================================================
RCS file:
/cvs/ecos/ecos/packages/hal/i386/pcmb/current/src/pcmb_serial.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -B -w -p -u -r1.5 pcmb_serial.c
--- hal/i386/pcmb/current/src/pcmb_serial.c     23 May 2002 23:03:16
-0000
1.5
+++ hal/i386/pcmb/current/src/pcmb_serial.c     14 May 2003 06:00:50
-0000
@@ -170,7 +170,8 @@ cyg_hal_plf_serial_init_channel(void* __
     HAL_READ_UINT8(base+CYG_DEV_LSR, lsr);
     ((channel_data_t*)__ch_data)->valid = (lsr != 0xFF);
      
-//    HAL_WRITE_UINT8(base+CYG_DEV_FCR, 0x07);  // Enable & clear FIFO
+    HAL_WRITE_UINT8(base+CYG_DEV_FCR, 0x07);  // Enable & clear FIFO
+
 }


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