Re: [ECOS] eCos configuration question (was Re: [ECOS] General Q ...)

[John Mills <johnmills@speakeasy.net>]

Gary -

Thanks for the help.

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Gary Thomas wrote:

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> John Mills wrote:
> > Leaving aside my responses to Andrew cut in below:
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> >  1. How should I set or clear this switch in my *.ecc files? I don't
> > recognize the entry in 'configtool'. Should I edit the *.ecc and 
> > regenerate the tree? Edit the affected 'hal.h'?
> 
> You could edit the .ecc file and rerun 'ecosconfig tree'.  Editing the
> hal.h file is useless as it may get regenerated.

> More importantly, it would be useful to find out why this is being
> set the way it is.  You can figure this out by reading the .ecc file.

Good point. In fact I seem to be picking at a minor side-effect of a 
rather general setting here, so I had better "expect the unexpected".

> >  2. In general, is there a listing in eCos or RedBoot docs about these 
> > [fairly obscure] switches?
> 
> Probably not much beyond the CDL files themselves.
> 
> Of course, if you want to contribute some documentation on the subject,
> it would always be welcome :-)

 So far, I don't even know enough to be very dangerous, much less very 
helpful!


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