From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Csebits <christoph.csebits@frequentis.com>
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot - virgin go command
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 10:36:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B698EFA.4C73BD64@redhat.com>
References: <20010802175613.A7070@frequentis.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00071.html

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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