[ECOS] RedBoot - virgin go command

[ECOS] RedBoot - virgin go command

[Christoph Csebits]

hi

a 'go' without a previous 'load' command
tries to start a program at 0x00000000.
Mostly there is no executable there
and RedBoot shows me
$T0f40:ff0133c8;01:0003eb6c;#ea

If this is not intended behaviour,
maybe RedBoot
1) should prevent me starting any programm
at 0x00000000.
or
2) should initialize the entry_address with
its rom entry point (e.g. 0xfe000100)

what do you think about that?

regards christoph
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Re: [ECOS] RedBoot - virgin go command

[Jonathan Larmour]

Christoph Csebits wrote:
> 
> hi
> 
> a 'go' without a previous 'load' command
> tries to start a program at 0x00000000.
> Mostly there is no executable there
> and RedBoot shows me
> $T0f40:ff0133c8;01:0003eb6c;#ea
> 
> If this is not intended behaviour,
> maybe RedBoot
> 1) should prevent me starting any programm
> at 0x00000000.
> or
> 2) should initialize the entry_address with
> its rom entry point (e.g. 0xfe000100)
> 
> what do you think about that?

If we added copious error checking in RedBoot to deal with every
eventuality that _might_ happen, RedBoot would be a lot bigger and bloated.

If you do something wrong, expect it to go wrong :-).

Jifl
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