Problem with running hello_world on Lite5200 eval board

[Sebastian Huber]

The start address of the text section is 0x10000 an not 0x40000 (used in 
-a and -e mkimage options). The README.IceCube is not up to date.

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 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 
>>
>>
>>     
>
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