[Avila] find whether my board uses redboot_RAM.ecm or redboot_ROM.ecm

[Tim Harvey]

--- David Acker <dacker at roinet.com> wrote:

> Bhanu Prakash Adhikari wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks David.
> > 
> > I'm a newbie to Redboot as developer but have been using it for long.
> > 
> > We are at the right intersection; I'm actually attempting to load the
> > custom build redboot to Avila board as a part of my exercise to build
> > application on the top of redboot.
> > 
> > I was under the impression these steps will do to load redboot -
> > 
> > (http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/redboot/ipaq.html )
> > 
> > RedBoot> lo -r -b 0x100000 redboot_ROM.bin
> > RedBoot> fi loc -f 0x50000000 -l 0x40000
> > RedBoot> fis init
> > RedBoot> fi unl -f 0x50040000 -l 0x40000
> > RedBoot> fi cr RedBoot -b 0x100000
> > RedBoot> fi loc -f 0x50040000 -l 0x40000
> > RedBoot> reset
> > 
> > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> I believe the avila boards have a redboot in rom mode which will not 
> over write itself.  You will need to boot to linux (or something else) 
> and then overwrite redboot.  We changed redboot to make the config 
> partitions come up the way linux wants.  You could also jtag it but jtag 
> takes a very long time, even for just redboot.
> -Ack
> 

FYI:  

Gateworks now has a GW16027 Rev D JTAG programmer that gives about a 20x
increase in programming speed over the previous GW16027 versions.  You can
reflash the redboot blocks in appx a minute or less.

Tim

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