Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:37:00 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Danovitsch@vitsch.net Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: At91rm9200 how to start with FreeBSD Message-ID: <20061121.103700.1152757768.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200611211817.23949.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> References: <200611202312.58007.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> <20061121112926.GA87021@ci0.org> <200611211817.23949.Danovitsch@vitsch.net>
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"Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@vitsch.net> writes:
: Apart from that I have another problem with this KB9202B board. I use the
: original boot loader that was provided by Kwikbyte and load the kernel using
: TFTP. I would really like to keep using TFTP for it's speed, but for some
: reason not all kernels I have created are bootable...
: I suspect this to be a problem in the boot loader. When I change the
: configuration of my kernel (add a device, or remove one) all of a sudden the
: kernel won't boot. The boot loader doesn't complain during the TFTP-transfer,
: but after typing "e 0x20000000" to execute, the board hangs without a single
: letter being output on the serial console.
: Has anyone else seen this problem?
: Is there a way to fix the TFTP problems I am seeing?
: (Or did I really mess up with compiling?)
kwikbyte's tftp boot code sucks. I fixed a lot of bugs with it and
you can find the results in bootiic :-) In fact, I started with
kwikbyte's boot loader and have made the original one fit in about ~5k
instead of 16k. I've also added some functionality to it and it takes
up 8k or so.
Warner
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