RE: [ECOS] GDB load "timed out"

[Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>]

On 30-Jul-2001 Sylvain Gommier wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I'm using ARM's Evaluator-7T (e7t) to develop eCos- as well as OS-free-
> embedded applications. I'm using GDB and its "target remote - load - continue"
> cycle to debug them thru the serial line.
> 
> This morning I got a loading error on a new binary as follows:
> (see trace 1 below)
> ...then the whole following get "Timed out" messages.
> All my others binaries' loadings remained the same, so why is that particular
> one failing? Could my binary's contents have an influence on the transmission?
> As I was developing it, the binary may (ok, must :) be buggy...
> 
> Then I decided to slow down my serial line from 38400 to 9600 but I needed to
> recompile RedBoot to do that (no "baudrate" command available in the
> pre-compiled redboot image for e7t). Using eCos' last CVS update and configtool
> v1.3.1.2, I chose the e7t template with "all" packages and added the RedBoot
> package (there has been an automatic conflict "resolution" here), then set the
> serial speed (CYGNUM_HAL_VIRTUAL_VECTOR_CHANNELS_DEFAULT_BAUD) to 9600. At
> compile time, I get the following build error:
> (see trace 2 below)
> I'm not an eCos' internals expert yet, what does that mean? Which settings did
> I missed?
> 
> Thanks!
> Sylvain
> 
> -- begin trace 1 --
> (gdb) load
> Loading section .text, size 0x438 lma 0x8000
                                        ^^^^^^

This most certainly won't work on this platform.  RedBoot (or GDB stubs) will
be using RAM up to 0x10000 - you need to arrange your program to load at that
address or higher.