[ECOS] building redboot with eCos eernel

[Michael Jastrebtsoff]

Hello, Nick.

I wanted to use FAT with CompactFlash driver for updating the main
program(based on eCos kernel) from CF card. Probably I will be able to
implement FAT driver+high level disk driver+CF driver in read-only mode for
doing that.

Thanks a lot.

NG> The FAT filesystem will not work in RedBoot since it requires too many
NG> kernel facilities to work. You cannot put the kernel into RedBoot
NG> since RedBoot is intended to be a stand alone application, there are
NG> just too many assumptions for this to work.

NG> The only use that RedBoot would have for FAT filesystem support is to
NG> load executables. So a simple read-only loader similar to the one that
NG> already exists for ext2 would be a better solution.

NG> -- 
NG> Nick Garnett                    eCos Kernel Architect
NG> http://www.ecoscentric.com      The eCos and RedBoot experts






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