* Re: [ECOS] Problem with little-endian RedBoot for GRG board
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@ 2004-09-01 13:14 ` Gary Thomas
2004-09-01 13:41 ` Mark Salter
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From: Gary Thomas @ 2004-09-01 13:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mark Salter; +Cc: eCos Maintainers
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 06:27, Mark Salter wrote:
> >>>>> =?big5?B?V2lsbGlhbSBDaGVuICizr6n6rHUp?= writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm trying to run the little-endian RedBoot on GRG board.
> > I downloaded RedBoot 1.94 Pre-Built Binaries (includes NPE Ethernet support) from Intel, in that contains both big-endian and little-endian RedBoot binaries.
> > It runs successfully when i update the big-endian RedBoot binary to my GRG board, but it's fail to run when i update the little-endian binary.
> > I've tried to install the little-endian binary to GRG board by using flash programmer and updating from RedBoot and both case are failed.
> > If any one has experience about running little-endian RedBoot on GRG board ?
>
> If it is not running at all, then I suspect that you are programming
> the flash with a reversed byte order image. The toolchain will produce
> a little-endian image for a little-endian RedBoot. However, the GRG
> (and IXDP425) require the image programmed into flash to be big-endian.
> So, you need to take the little-endian redboot.bin and swap the byte
> order of all the 32-bit words before programming into flash. Another
> problem I have seen is that a number of GRG boards use A-step cpu
> which does not fully support little-endian. In that case, everything
> works except the NPE support.
>
> BTW, look for the GRG and IXDP425 little-endian support to be merged
> into CVS this week...
That's encouraging :-) Have you any word on the Copyright transfer?
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates
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* Re: [ECOS] Problem with little-endian RedBoot for GRG board
2004-09-01 13:14 ` [ECOS] Problem with little-endian RedBoot for GRG board Gary Thomas
@ 2004-09-01 13:41 ` Mark Salter
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From: Mark Salter @ 2004-09-01 13:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gary; +Cc: ecos-maintainers
>>>>> Gary Thomas writes:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 06:27, Mark Salter wrote:
>> BTW, look for the GRG and IXDP425 little-endian support to be merged
>> into CVS this week...
> That's encouraging :-) Have you any word on the Copyright transfer?
Sorry, I'm out of the loop on that. I thought for sure it was going
to happen three months ago. Not sure what the holdup is.
--Mark
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