Re: [ECOS] Is the RedBoot the eCos environment on a i386 PC target?

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Boen Shieh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have built a redboot.bin for i386 PC target which has booted up
> successfully with the floppy startup mode. I manually assign the IP
> address for it by using the command of "IP_Address -l 192.168.10.170 -h
> 192.168.10.171", and then ping or telnet works.
> 
> Then I telnet the i386 PC target in the host like this: telnet
> 192.168.10.170 9000 and the prompt of "RedBoot>" echos on my host
> screen that means I'v got into the target debugging or simulating mode.
> My question is that "Is this now in the eCos environment"? I need your
> help, please!

No that's just RedBoot which is the ROM monitor for eCos. You then need to
compile an eCos application and send it to the target, probably using
i386-elf-gdb. Read the eCos user guide for more details, or consider
buying Anthony Massa's book:

http://ecos.sourceware.org/ecos/docs.html

Jifl
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