From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Thomas To: Grant Edwards Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: RE: [ECOS] RedBoot: Intel bootblock build on big-endian Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:56:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20010214125649.A9655@visi.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00249.html Actually, we're working on ways of removing all of this "magic" anyway, so these problems should soon disappear. On 14-Feb-2001 Grant Edwards wrote: > > Trying to build Intel boot-block flash support on big-endian > ARM fails. It looks like the special make commands that are > done to generate PIC code don't pay attention to endian > configuration. > > Since I'm not running RedBoot in ROM anyway, I've modified the > generic flash device and the Intel boot-block flash device to > pay attention to whether or not CYG_HAL_STARTUP_ROM is set. If > not, it skips the copy-PIC-code-to-data-space stuff. > > It builds cleanly, but I'm waiting to get a board with Intel > flash so I can test it. I'll submit a patch (with a Changelog > entry!) once I'm satisfied that it works. > > Anyway, people running from ROM on a big-endian ARM will need > to fix the special "make" stuff in the CDL file. > > -- > Grant Edwards > grante@visi.com