Re: [ECOS] AT91EB40 and RedBoot

[Gary Thomas <gary at chez-thomas dot org>]

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 09:29, Scott Dattalo wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Tim Drury wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I must be having similar problems to Scott.  I tried doing ctrl-z after
> > uploading and (c)ontinuing redboot from gdb.  When minicom comes
> > up I see nothing.  I assume you are doing 'minicom -o' which skips past
> > modem initialization.  Instead of ctrl-z should I completely exit gdb?
> > What kind of feedback are you supposed to get from the EB40 to confirm
> > you are talking to RedBoot?  The 'RedBoot>' prompt?
> 
> 
> Tim,
> 
> 
> I strongly suspect that the RedBoot binary is corrupted in some way. The 
> "corruption" may be due to a change in the EB40 evaluation board. My 
> board, btw, is an EB40 V2.0 (rev sticker on the flash). I've grabbed the 
> latest ECOS code from CVS and am planning to rebuild the RedBoot portion 
> for the EB40 board.
> 
> oh, and to answer your questions, I started minicom with the -o option. I 
> also invoked gdb without the Insight gui, gdb -nw. 
> 
> Since we're in the same boat in this one, let's work together and get the
> problem solved.

Have you tried typing commands?  RedBoot isn't going to just print 
something when you connect with minicom - those bits have long vanished
into the air...


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