From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10180 invoked by alias); 21 May 2004 14:15:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10089 invoked from network); 21 May 2004 14:15:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lorien.elatec.si) (193.77.58.106) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 21 May 2004 14:15:46 -0000 Received: from elatec.si (onix [10.0.0.253]) by lorien.elatec.si (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i4LEIfm30400; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:18:41 +0200 Message-ID: <40AE0F3F.7080604@elatec.si> Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:03:00 -0000 From: Savin Zlobec User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jam2000@pisem.net, nickg@ecoscentric.com CC: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [ECOS] Re: building redboot with eCos kernel X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00256.txt.bz2 Nick Garnett wrote: >Michael Jastrebtsoff writes: > >> Hello, All. >> >> I need to build Redboot with FAT support. But FAT requires eCos >> kernel. >> >> I try build Redboot with eCos kernel, but this don't work.(when i >> connected to redboot via terminal, i'v got a random chars on screen.) > >The FAT filesystem will not work in RedBoot since it requires too many >kernel facilities to work. You cannot put the kernel into RedBoot >since RedBoot is intended to be a stand alone application, there are >just too many assumptions for this to work. > > There shouldn't be a lot do to get fatfs into RedBoot - all I can think of right now is the cyg_mempool_* api which is not available in nonkernel configurations. >The only use that RedBoot would have for FAT filesystem support is to >load executables. So a simple read-only loader similar to the one that >already exists for ext2 would be a better solution. > > This has already beed done - check The DODES project at http://www.m17n.org/dodes/ecos/index.en.html. savin -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss