[En-Nut-Discussion] L9260 Initialization..[Was: Nut/OS Initialization ]

[John E]

Alain,

Do you have any advice? I noticed that Olimex L9260 specific documentation
was limited.

Thanks
John


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Alain M. <alainm at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> PragmaLab escreveu:
> > what about getting the address of the reset vector and start debugging
> from
> > there? Just look in the map-file. I'm not familiar with Eclipse but at
> least
> > it must be possible to set breakpoints on (HW)addresses.
>
> It seams like it is easy, but I never manged to make it. If you set a
> breakpoint using the debugger, Eclipse does not enter the source level
> debugging mode. It could take an expert in Eclipse to do that, if anyone
> can find one...
>
> > But let us stay focussed on the interesting discussion of how the HW
> > initialisation can be improved in NutOS. Calling code before main:
> nothing
> > wrong about that IMHO. Cannot think of another way to get your int i=5;
> done
> > runtime. In NutOS quite a lot of initialisation is done before calling
> > main(). Debugging has never been a problem (for me).
>
> It has for me ... with NutOS ... on an ARM9 board from Olimex. I spent
> days to find a simple error in the startup initialization, and still
> some more to go because debugg is not working well, only program load.
> Call it a recurrent nightmare :(
>
> That is whi, INHO, the more that I can push to after main() the simpler
> it can get :)
>
> Alain
>
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