Problem with running hello_world on Lite5200 eval board

[Joel Sherrill]

I'm at home but there is a step past getting the executable
where you have to use mkimage on it.  The command might
be in the list archives. 

Thomas or Sebastian might have this handier.

--joel

Brian Mu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to get some help on running hello_world on Lite5200 eval 
> board (icecube).
>
> I downloaded and compiled u-boot-2009.03 successfully on my Fedora box 
> and tftp/flash_updated to the eval board. Here is the boot message 
> when the board is up:
>
> U-Boot 2009.03 (Apr 21 2009 - 12:25:02)
>
> CPU:   MPC5200 v1.2, Core v1.1 at 198 MHz
>        Bus 66 MHz, IPB 33 MHz, PCI 16.500 MHz
> Board: Motorola MPC5200 (IceCube)
> I2C:   85 kHz, ready
> DRAM:  64 MB
> FLASH: 16 MB
> PCI:   Bus Dev VenId DevId Class Int
>         00  1a  1057  5803  0680  00
> In:    serial
> Out:   serial
> Err:   serial
> Net:   FEC ETHERNET
> IDE:   Bus 0: not available 
>
> Type "run flash_nfs" to mount root filesystem over NFS
>
> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
> =>
> =>
> => tftp 90000 hello.bin
> Using FEC ETHERNET device
> TFTP from server 172.21.3.224; our IP address is 172.21.3.46
> Filename 'hello.bin'.
> Load address: 0x90000
> Loading: #########
> done
> Bytes transferred = 127712 (1f2e0 hex)
> => go 90000
> ## Starting application at 0x00090000 ...
>
>
> I also configure/make/installed the released branch of RTEMS 4.9 by 
> the following steps
>
> Configure RTEMS for icecube
>     cd build
>     ../rtems-4.9.2/configure --target=powerpc-rtems4.9 --enable-cxx 
> --enable-networking --disable-itron --enable-rtemsbsp=icecube
>
> Compile RTEMS for icecube
>     make all
>     su
>     make install
>
> Compile examples
>     cd ../examples-4.9.2
>     export RTEMS_MAKEFILE_PATH=/opt/rtems-4.9/powerpc-rtems4.9/icecube/
>     make
>
> I did add a section in the hello_world make file to create an image 
> file (irrelevant for now since I use 'go' directly)
>     /opt/rtems-4.9/bin/powerpc-rtems4.9-objcopy -R -S -O binary 
> ${ARCH}/hello.exe ${ARCH}/hello.bin
>     cat ${ARCH}/hello.bin | gzip -9 > ${ARCH}/hello.gz
>     /opt/eldk_42/usr/bin/mkimage \
>     -A ppc -O rtems -T kernel -a 0x40000 -e 0x40000 -n "RTEMS" \
>     -d ${ARCH}/hello.gz ${ARCH}/hello.img
>
> After tftp hello.bin to 0x90000, then typing 'go 90000' under u-boot, 
> nothing gets printout. I do have a BDI3000 with me. By stepping 
> through the code, it seems that the code stuck at 0x9064c of the 
> boot_card()
>
>    *  Set the program name in case some application cares.
>    */
>   if ((argc > 0) && argv && argv[0])
>     rtems_progname = argv[0];
>   else
>     rtems_progname = "RTEMS";
>    10640:       3d 20 00 03     lis     r9,3
>    10644:       39 29 bc 28     addi    r9,r9,-17368
>    10648:       91 2d 04 94     stw     r9,1172(r13)
>    1064c:       4b ff ff 50     b       1059c <boot_card+0x64>
>     if (heap_start == BSP_BOOTCARD_HEAP_USES_WORK_AREA) {
>       /* Use the work area start as heap start */
>       heap_start = work_area_start;
>
> I believe I am missing some obvious stuff since everything so far has 
> been straightforward. I'd appreciate if someone can point out the 
> mistake. Thanks in advance.
>
> Brian 
>
>