[ECOS] how to create floppy image for ecos ?

[ECOS] how to create floppy image for ecos ?

[sivaraman venugopal]

hi
I have build the RedBoot image for an i386 PC
(Redboot.bin file). 
 
it works when i reboot my system.

i also build the ecos library for an i386 PC
(default).

i compiled and linked  the ecos example file
"hello.c", as said in the "Embedded software
development with eCos " book. It produced two files
"hello.o" and "hello" .

how can i create a floppy image of the example
"hello", to boot it from floppy directly.

regards
sivaraman

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Re: [ECOS] how to create floppy image for ecos ?

[Nick Garnett]

sivaraman venugopal <sivaramanvenugopal@yahoo.com> writes:

> hi
> I have build the RedBoot image for an i386 PC
> (Redboot.bin file). 
>  
> it works when i reboot my system.
> 
> i also build the ecos library for an i386 PC
> (default).
> 
> i compiled and linked  the ecos example file
> "hello.c", as said in the "Embedded software
> development with eCos " book. It produced two files
> "hello.o" and "hello" .
> 
> how can i create a floppy image of the example
> "hello", to boot it from floppy directly.
> 

Take a look at the following page about how to build a floppy-booted
application:

http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/user-guide/setup-i386-pc.html

It explains everything there.

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Re: [ECOS] how to create floppy image for ecos ?

[David N. Welton]

One thing that I've written which is at times helpful is a little
application in Tcl in order to verify that your floppy image has
indeed been trasferred correctly to the disk.  It's kind of slow,
because it both reads and writes the image, but with the quantity of
bad disks out there, it can save you from scratching your head when
something  doesn't quite work.

It's available here:

http://dedasys.com/freesoftware/

Look under 'scivoli':

wget http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/files/md5check.tcl.gz
gunzip md5check.tcl.gz
./md5check.tcl image.bin /dev/fd0

You have to have the right permissions, of course.

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Re: [ECOS] Redboot iPaq support...

[ipaqcoder]

>
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 07:50, Hsu, Cheng-Hsin (Cheng-Hsin) wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Does eCos support any iPaq model with PXA-250 processor?
> > (Please let me know if there is any webpage showing the currently
> > supported models, Thanks!)
>
I have ported eCos to the iPAQ H3950 (PXA 250). If you are in a rush, the
uE250 tree is a good starting point. .




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Re: [ECOS] Redboot iPaq support...

[Gary Thomas]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 02:49, ipaqcoder wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 07:50, Hsu, Cheng-Hsin (Cheng-Hsin) wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > Does eCos support any iPaq model with PXA-250 processor?
> > > (Please let me know if there is any webpage showing the currently
> > > supported models, Thanks!)
> >
> I have ported eCos to the iPAQ H3950 (PXA 250). If you are in a rush, the
> uE250 tree is a good starting point. .

Sounds interesting!  Are you planning on contributing this
work back to the project?  

Note: that *is* the point of such an open project.  We all benefit
from what has been published and it makes sense to return the favor.

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MLB Associates


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[ECOS] Redboot iPaq support...

[Hsu, Cheng-Hsin (Cheng-Hsin)]

All,

	I have a Sharp SL-5600 running Linux. And I would like to try to boot into OSes other than the standard Sharp Linux.
	I saw that people could install RedBoot on their ipaq after WinCE is up. Does that mean they could load and boot into whatever OSes after that?
	Does eCos support any iPaq model with PXA-250 processor? (Please let me know if there is any webpage showing the currently supported models, Thanks!)

Regards,
Bear.



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Re: [ECOS] Redboot iPaq support...

[Gary Thomas]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 07:50, Hsu, Cheng-Hsin (Cheng-Hsin) wrote:
> All,
> 
> 	I have a Sharp SL-5600 running Linux. And I would like 
> to try to boot into OSes other than the standard Sharp Linux.

In general, RedBoot can support booting most any operating system.
Some system-specific support may be necessary.

> 	I saw that people could install RedBoot on their ipaq after 
> WinCE is up. Does that mean they could load and boot into whatever 
> OSes after that?
> 	Does eCos support any iPaq model with PXA-250 processor? 
> (Please let me know if there is any webpage showing the currently 
> supported models, Thanks!)

At this time, only the StrongARM based H3630 is supported, sorry.
eCos (and RedBoot) could be easily ported to the newer Xscale versions,
but this would require some engineering.  This could either be done
by you or such porting efforts can be contracted from various 
organizations.

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Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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