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Re: simple hello world on i386 target
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 21:13 +0100, Gonçalo Antunes wrote:
> Hello again!
>
> I configured the eCos installation with the "i386PC target" template, put
> the Startup Type to FLOPPY and
> built it.
> I wrote a simple hello world program, compiled it ok and then make the
> i386-elf-objcopy -O binary hello hello.bin
> and then:
> dd conv=sync if=hello.bin of=/dev/fd0
> for it to run booting from the floppy disk...
>
> The program is a simple thread in a loop that prints out "Hello World"...
> It should boot up and start printing "HelloWorld"... but it doesn't!
> After booting nothing is on the screen... just the cursor blinking...
> I launch the threan on the cyg_user_start... I think I am doing everything
> by the book...but it does not work.
>
> can you help me?
Did you configure it to use the screen as it's debug I/O device?
Note that the default is to use COM1 (the first serial port) since
it is more common to have only serial connections than VGA screens
for truly embedded systems.
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