From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Thomas To: Sylvain Gommier Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: RE: [ECOS] GDB load "timed out" Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:59:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20010730153434.51715.qmail@web13302.mail.yahoo.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00912.html 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.