[ECOS] reboot and ecos basic questions

[ECOS] reboot and ecos basic questions

[Robert V]

Hi all,

I am new to ecos and have just installed the ecos-2.0
distribution on my fedora core system. One question I have is about the 
redboot monitor. If you are using  gdb and your target supports hardware 
debug through a something like a bdm port on a Freescale Coldfire-based 
device, why would you need Reboot?

Also, I am looking for some direction on how to manage updating my ecos 
installation with the latest updates in revision control ( i.e. CVS ). 
Can someone point me to docs on how to do this?
For example, is there are 'working' release of ecos that eventually will 
be eco-2.1, rendering ecos-2.0 frozen?


Thanks,
Bob

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[ECOS] Re: reboot and ecos basic questions

[Grant Edwards]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:25:35AM -0500, Robert V wrote:

> I am new to ecos and have just installed the ecos-2.0
> distribution on my fedora core system. One question I have is
> about the redboot monitor. If you are using gdb and your
> target supports hardware debug through a something like a bdm
> port on a Freescale Coldfire-based device, why would you need
> Reboot?

You might not 'need' redboot.  If you've got some other way to
load programs into RAM and/or flash ROM and do debugging, then
you could get by without it.  Redboot is an awfully handy way
to be able to do things like update flash through a serial
port.

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Grant Edwards
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