Thanks for all the help so far in getting
our cross compile environment going. We
got it set up and successfully compiled and
linked an arm executable.

Now we are having download headaches-- how
do we tell what is going on (both right and
wrong?). This is on a brutus-- we are following
the directions on the intel site 

(http://developer.intel.com/design/strong/applnots/sa1100lx).


We expect to be able to see the kernel console using
a terminal program on the host (but it's not clear to
us how the kernel knows to use the com port on the
brutus as the console).

So far, we aren't getting anything to boot.

The details:

We fixed up the make file thusly, 
   ARCH:=arm 
   CROSS_COMPILE = arm-linux-

   %make config
   %make zImage
and compiled there kernel, getting a nice
zImage in arch/arm.

We copied our app to the ramdisk and compressed
it again to ramdisk.gz 

We are uing angelboot to do the download with
the opt file configued with:                         
                        
opt file:    
   base 0x8000
   entry 0xc0008000
   device /dev/ttyS0
   options "9600 8N1"
   baud 115200
   otherfile ramdisk.gz
   otherbase 0x800000
                        
We connected a null modem serial cable from COM1
(/dev/tty/S0) on  our linux host to port J23 on
the brutus (also com1 there?) We connected 
another null modem serial cable from j22 on
the brutus to a com port on a windows 98 machine
and accessed the port using hyperterminal.
Our parms here were 9600 baud n81 (we are using cheap
machines, w/only one external serial port!).

Kicking off angelboot downloads our ramdisk and zImage (or
at least it looks like it. But no LOGON prompt comes
up on our hyper terminal. I'm assumming that the
boot loader should get immediate control right
after angel finishes the download and nothing further
should be required on our part. Any help
would be much appreciated! 

We've tried some variations 
(using an uncompressed ramdisk and specifying
the entry parm inthe opt file as 0xc0008020
instead of 0xc0008000 but nothing helps :(

Thanks,
Dave



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