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RE: RedBoot: Intel bootblock build on big-endian
- To: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] RedBoot: Intel bootblock build on big-endian
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 06:56:49 -0700 (MST)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
Actually, we're working on ways of removing all of this "magic"
anyway, so these problems should soon disappear.
On 14-Feb-2001 Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> Trying to build Intel boot-block flash support on big-endian
> ARM fails. It looks like the special make commands that are
> done to generate PIC code don't pay attention to endian
> configuration.
>
> Since I'm not running RedBoot in ROM anyway, I've modified the
> generic flash device and the Intel boot-block flash device to
> pay attention to whether or not CYG_HAL_STARTUP_ROM is set. If
> not, it skips the copy-PIC-code-to-data-space stuff.
>
> It builds cleanly, but I'm waiting to get a board with Intel
> flash so I can test it. I'll submit a patch (with a Changelog
> entry!) once I'm satisfied that it works.
>
> Anyway, people running from ROM on a big-endian ARM will need
> to fix the special "make" stuff in the CDL file.
>
> --
> Grant Edwards
> grante@visi.com