Re: Bootloader

From: Edwin Foo <efoo.a.t.crl.dec.com>
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 23:19:58 EDT

Hey, that's great news. If you could put those bootloader bits up someplace
where I can get to them, I can test them here on a real iPaq development
board. Let me know if you're able to do that.

-Edwin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Swindells" <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
To: <netbsd@handhelds.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: [Netbsd] Bootloader

>
> I think I have got a bit further with getting the bootloader to work.
>
> I tried putting a bootloader built on NetBSD into flash on my Assabet
> board using the JTAG interface. I couldn't get a RAM based image to
> work on top of Angel.
>
> It gets up to the point where boot-sa11x0.s tests whether the code is
> running at the address where it was linked. My build is out by 0x20,
> so it tries to move around the flash image.
>
> I can flash the bootloader from v0.11 but it failed to write the Linux
> kernel to flash. I suspect the Assabet board uses a different flash
> device from the iPaq.
>
> I'll look at it some more on Friday.
>
> Robert
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