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Re: RedBoot - virgin go command
- To: Christoph Csebits <christoph dot csebits at frequentis dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot - virgin go command
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:33:46 +0100
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <20010802175613.A7070@frequentis.com>
Christoph Csebits wrote:
>
> hi
>
> a 'go' without a previous 'load' command
> tries to start a program at 0x00000000.
> Mostly there is no executable there
> and RedBoot shows me
> $T0f40:ff0133c8;01:0003eb6c;#ea
>
> If this is not intended behaviour,
> maybe RedBoot
> 1) should prevent me starting any programm
> at 0x00000000.
> or
> 2) should initialize the entry_address with
> its rom entry point (e.g. 0xfe000100)
>
> what do you think about that?
If we added copious error checking in RedBoot to deal with every
eventuality that _might_ happen, RedBoot would be a lot bigger and bloated.
If you do something wrong, expect it to go wrong :-).
Jifl
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