Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:04:51 +0100 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@vitsch.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: At91rm9200 how to start with FreeBSD Message-ID: <200611221504.51893.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <20061121.103700.1152757768.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200611202312.58007.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> <200611211817.23949.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> <20061121.103700.1152757768.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:37, you wrote: > In message: <200611211817.23949.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> > > "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 Changing the boot loader indeed solved the problems I was seeing. It's also nice to have a progress indicator while downloading and to actually see errors when things go wrong :) Thanks, Daan
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