[ECOS] redboot on IXDP425

[Mark Salter]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:31 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 17:13 +0100, jerzy dyrda wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 16:55, Mark Salter wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 18:47 +0300, Nickolay wrote:
> > > > Mark Salter wrote:
> > > > >On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 18:17 +0300, Nickolay wrote:
> > > > >>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.
> > > > >
> > > > >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?
> > >
> > > 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
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> 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]
> 
I'm not sure. VxWorks may use a different mmu mapping than RedBoot.

--Mark



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