Re: [ECOS] eCos support for Motorola ColdFire?

[Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 14:05, W Jensen wrote:
> I am working on a port to the 5272c3 eval board.  It
> works with proprietary boot code, but I need to make
> it work with Motorola's debugger (dBUG).
> 
> How do other eval board ports (PPC) work with vendor
> debuggers?  Do they require you to download the code
> to RAM and type go <addr>, or is there a better way?
> 

Use RedBoot :-)

Honestly, after you have the basic HAL ported and can run code from 
ROM/FLASH, RedBoot is free.  I realize that there is a chicken & egg
problem, but to get RedBoot running you need only complete a small 
portion of the actual HAL port.  Then you can use it's facilities
to get the rest going.

> Thanks.
> 
> --- Bill Knight <BillK@rosw.com> wrote:
> > Does there exist or is anyone working on a port of
> > eCos
> > for the Motorola Coldfire?  We are specifically
> > interested
> > in using the 5307 on a custom board but info about
> > any
> > eCos port to a Coldfire would be greatly
> > appreciated?
> > 
> > TIA
> > -Bill Knight
> > R O SoftWare
> > 
> > 
> > 
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