Re: [ECOS] any tool/strategy present in eCos to load ram image stored in flash and run it ???

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:07 +0200, Ram Sudhir Tadavarthi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to eCos. I have redboot working for my platform(PQ2FADS-ZU board).
> Now I am creating ram images on the host and loading the ram images to the
> target using the redboot load via tftp and running them successfully.
> 
> However in production series, we would like to store the ram image in flash,
> copy the image in ram and run it from ram.
> 
> Is there any tool/strategy/option in eCos to do this? Can we configure
> redboot to do it?
> 
> In my point of view, most of you might have done this already. Can anybody
> give me hint how to do this.

This is exactly what the FIS (create/load) commands are for.  You can 
create a boot script to load the image and execute it.

To create the image:
  RedBoot> lo program_image
  RedBoot> fi create program

To run it in your boot script:
  (boot) fi lo program
  (boot) g

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