[ECOS] Re: Problem with PowerPC simulator

[Bart Veer <bartv@cygnus.co.uk>]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Lunn <lunn@ma.tech.ascom.ch> writes:

    >> These addresses are wrong. _start should be at 0x4000 or so.
    >> Are you sure you selected RAM startup, and didn't save and/or
    >> build on top of an different configuration?

    Andrew> Im not quite sure what i did, but it now works, i get the
    Andrew> PASS and EXIT lines

    Andrew> I think i changed back to the Cogent eval board setting,
    Andrew> enabled startup type ram, swapped back to the mininal
    Andrew> simulator and rebuilt everything. Maybe the startup type
    Andrew> option needs moving from being a subsection of Cognet to
    Andrew> the same level as the Cognet and Minimal simulator.

That would not be quite right either. The startups available do depend
on the platform. Some platforms might only support RAM startup because
nobody has contributed a ROM startup yet. Other platforms might have
several different RAM startups, depending on which ROM monitor is
installed on the board - exactly what hardware is already initialized
and how may vary with the ROM monitor.

Instead it may be desirable to give a stronger visual indication of
the current platform and startup, to avoid confusion. This is
something we will bear in mind as the host-side software evolves.

Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer