Downloading/Uploading RTEMS app to mcp750

[Nick Withers]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 11:56 -0500, Noble N. Nkwocha wrote:
> Thank you.

Don't suppose you could update the Wiki
( http://rtems.org/wiki/index.php/Mcp750 ) with this information for the
next person, could you?

More doco! :-P
-- 
Nick Withers

Embedded Systems Programmer
Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics and
Engineering
The Australian National University (CRICOS: 00120C)

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> From: Oyake, Amalaye (398K) [mailto:amalaye.oyake at jpl.nasa.gov] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:50 AM
> To: Noble N. Nkwocha; Joel Sherrill; rtems-users at rtems.org
> Subject: RE: Downloading/Uploading RTEMS app to mcp750
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Hello Noble, 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> The MCP750 (the generic Motorola board that uses the PPC 750) should
> come with a bootloader. Connect it to a terminal program (Hyper
> Terminal is usually very straight forward), typically the settings are
> 9600-8-N-1 and then see what happens after a reset. Some of these
> boards have 1 or 2 serial ports, you just have to twiddle around to
> get the right one.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Once you get the boot-loader going, you will see whether it is a
> VxWorks bootloader or Uboot or something else. I think you can get
> RTEMS loaded using the VxWorks bootloader (never tried it, but it
> seems "reasonable")  ... 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> The procedure is the same for any board - You have to find the
> bootloader (Uboot, GRUB, LILO or whatever it may be).
> 
>  
> 
> 
> The Stanford guys use some VME set up which should have similar
> procedures.
> 
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> 
> Regards,
> 
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: rtems-users-bounces at rtems.org [rtems-users-bounces at rtems.org] on
> behalf of Noble N. Nkwocha [Noble.N.Nkwocha at nasa.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:28 AM
> To: Joel Sherrill; rtems-users at rtems.org
> Subject: RE: Downloading/Uploading RTEMS app to mcp750
> 
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
>  
> 
> I do know that ?RAD750 is ITARS? from your response to my earlier
> question  several weeks ago.    I am asking about mcp750.    Is mcp750
> ITARS too, or is it synonymous with RAD750?
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>  
> 
> Noble N. Nkwocha
> 
> (681) 753-5218 Work
> 
> (304) 816-3718 Home
> 
> (505) 238-5927 Cellular (Evenings, Nights and Weekends ONLY)
> 
> Noble.N.Nkwocha at NASA.Gov
> 
> 
>  
> 
> From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:15 AM
> To: Noble N. Nkwocha; rtems-users at rtems.org
> Subject: Re: Downloading/Uploading RTEMS app to mcp750
> 
> 
>  
> 
> The RAD750 is ITARS and there is no public documentation on it.
> 
> My recollection is that we used the hardware debugger or downloaded
> via SuROM in its expected format.
> 
> --joel
> 
> On 2/19/2014 9:56 AM, Noble N. Nkwocha wrote:
> 
> 
>         Hi everyone,
>         
>          
>         
>         1.       Is there a documented process for downloading /
>         uploading an RTEMS .ralf / .exe image onto a PowerPC/mcp750
>         board?
>         
>         2.       If there is, would someone be kind enough to point us
>         to it?   Otherwise, could someone please help with how to?
>         
>          
>         
>         Thank you,
>         
>          
>         
>         Noble N. Nkwocha
>         
>         (681) 753-5218 Work
>         
>         (304) 816-3718 Home
>         
>         (505) 238-5927 Cellular (Evenings, Nights and Weekends ONLY)
>         
>         Noble.N.Nkwocha at NASA.Gov
>         
>          
>         
> 
> 
> 
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