[ECOS] redboot on IXDP425

Nickolay nickolay@protei.ru
Tue Jan 11 17:07:00 GMT 2005


Gary Thomas wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 17:13 +0100, jerzy dyrda wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:55, Mark Salter wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 18:47 +0300, Nickolay wrote:
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>>>>Mark Salter wrote:
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>>>>>On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 18:17 +0300, Nickolay wrote:
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>>>>>>Hello Guys!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Anyone know, how i can install redboot on IXDP425 target?
>>>>>>I has vxWorks bootloader installed, and i need rewrite them or boot
>>>>>>redboot on them.
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>>>>>The flash is socketed on the IXDP425, so you can use a device
>>>>>programmer. The alternative is to use a jtag based flash
>>>>>programmer.
>>>>>
>>>>>--Mark
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>That's true!
>>>>But maybe anyone know how load redboot via vxworks bootloader?
>>>>Can i use redboot.bin for this purpose, or redboot.bin is for upgrade
>>>>redboot from redboot the self?
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>>>redboot.bin is just a raw binary image. It needs to get programmed
>>>to the start of flash. I'm not sure about the vxworks bootloader
>>>capabilities.
>>>
>>>--Mark
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>>Hello 
>>
>>I heard from vxWorks guys - it isn't possibility to write image by vxWorks 
>>bootloader and this bootloader don't configure hardware e.g PCI - Do you have 
>>other loader?
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>Why not use the VxWorks loader to load a RAM version of RedBoot
>(from ELF).  Then use that to load & program the FLASH (ROM) version.
>
>Mark - should this work? [it certainly does for most platforms]
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Yeah, if i can do it, it would be great!
How i can load elf image from vxWorks loader?



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