From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Edwards To: Hugo Tyson Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] More RedBoot questions Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:28:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010108103215.B10465@visi.com> References: <20010105174137.B3349@visi.com> <3A5662EB.DB42CF34@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00087.html On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:04:26PM +0000, Hugo Tyson wrote: > > > 5) The docs say that you can't load images via serial port > > > only via Ethernet. If you can run gdb via serial port why > > > can't you load images via serial port? > > > > The docs are out of date. You can now download using X/Y-modem. Also you > > can use RedBoot's GDB stub to load into RAM, but then you lose control of > > the Redboot prompt. (Although there is a workaround for this - type $k#6b > > directly at the serial port and redboot will restart, but whatever you > > loaded into RAM will be retained - this is not officially supported > > though). > > > > I don't know why we don't support direct loading over the serial port > > though - I'd have thought it would be pretty easy. No time I suppose. Gary? > > FAOD, "load images" here means "get a binary image from a file on some > server, straight into RAM, usually in order to program it into flash" > > It doesn't mean "load an image to run using GDB in the usual manner" > because of course that is supported by GDB stubs over either serial or > net. That's good. I still need to support debugging via serial port. > Just in case there was confusion there. A bit. -- Grant Edwards grante@visi.com