[U-Boot-Users] running custom apps under uboot

[Detlev Zundel]

The keyboard of himbA <goavr at email.si> wrote:

> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > In message <403A50BA.10807 at email.si> you wrote:
> > 
> >> I would like to code standalone app under uboot that would test my
> >> eth chip.
> >> I tried running hello_world.srec from ram location and I got
> >> 'prefetch abort' on go. My procedure follows:
> >>tftp a0100000 hello_world.srec
> >>go a0140004 test test2
> >>(go a0100000 test test2)
> > How comes you are using 0xa0100000 as load address?  Did  you
> > modify
> > the  Makefile  so that this address gets used? The default value used
> > in U-Boot for ARM systems is 0xc100000 ...
> > 
> I'm trying to download hello_world.srec to the memory and run it from
> the memory, as i do with the kernel. I didn't change any Makefiles nor
> any of the sources. Was it wrong to think that I could execute an
> image from the memory that way ?

Tftp will transfer the file byte by byte so the srec ASCII will end
up in RAM - I doubt that you can run that.  Try the hello_world.bin
binary file intended for this purpose.

Cheers
  Detlev

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