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Re: RedBoot go command enhancement
- From: "Gary D. Thomas" <gary dot thomas at mind dot be>
- To: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 30 Jan 2003 09:18:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot go command enhancement
- References: <20030130161249.2230D7884D@deneb.localdomain>
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:12, Mark Salter wrote:
>
> Here's a patch I've been playing around with. It provides a
> mechanism for programs started by the RedBoot go command to
> return to the RedBoot prompt and have its exit status displayed.
> It also adds a -c flag to the go command which prevents the
> caches from being disabled before jumping to the program. I've
> only tried it with standalone newlib/libgloss based apps, but
> eCos apps should also be able to use the VV mechanism as well.
> I thought I'd throw this out and solicit any comments.
>
Nice. My only concern is that "workspace_end" is a scary place
to keep the saved context. Maybe this should be in [static] low
memory?
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