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Re: Help: To create Redboot configuration partitions
- From: Cletus Pasanha <mailcletus at yahoo dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:41:32 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Help: To create Redboot configuration partitions
Hi,
Actually, I have very basic JTAG programmer. It does
only flash programming, does not have functionality to
read the flash.
So, just wondering, how to generate these partitions
while compiling, as the Redboot images are created. I
am using Redboot v2.01.
Thanks,
Cletus
--- Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:04:35AM -0700, Cletus
> Pasanha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on IXP425 development board. It has
> 16MB
> > flash.
> >
> > I am able to update the Redboot image using
> > redboots.bin file to flash using JTAG. I am just
> > wondering, how do I create the following Redboot
> > configuration partition images to use them while
> JTAG.
> >
> > - FIS directory
> > - RedBoot config
> >
> > Basically, my intention is to create the whole
> 16MB
> > image and I am planning to add the Linux kernel
> and
> > Ramdisk to it.
> >
> > Right now, I am using the prebuit image, which
> creates
> > these redboot configuration partitions initially.
>
> Setup everything you want in flash and the simply
> use your JTAG tools
> to read it all back as one image. You will probably
> find that much
> easier to do that assemble the complete image on the
> host.
>
> Andrew
>
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