[Balloon] Re: bootldr woes

[Colin Tuckley]

Nick Bane wrote:

> Most interesting.

That wasn't what I said <g>

> Does the flash erase with a stock bootldr? I guess it is just posible
> that the flash/board is broken.

I managed to try this and yes, if I use an original bootldr.small then it
works (ie I can use it to download and burn itself). It is this version:

-rw-r--r--   1 colin colin   55168 2003-10-06 17:53 bootldr.small

boot> ver
Compaq OHH BootLoader, Rev 2-20-2 for Balloon [BIG_KERNEL] [MINIMAL
FUNCTIONALITY] [SLOW_CPU] [MONO]
Last link date: Thu Sep 18 11:17:47 BST 2003
Contact: bootldr at handhelds.org
Contact (Balloon): balloon at toby-churchill.org

Of course I have no idea which source files match this. Do you have any
ideas what might have changed between then and now?

Just to make sure I repeated my test with the one you built me using gcc 2.95:

-rw-r--r--   1 colin colin   54912 2006-03-03 17:08 bootldr.small-gcc2.95

It still fails!

I have to assume there is something different about the sources - maybe some
change that you have made that only works on a tcl variant and not on a
guralp variant. Can you identify which sources were used to build the
working one please?

> The fact that ACK0 is present in the second version suggests to me that
> there is some compiler/linker dependency horror somewhere.

Quite likely, however until we can get a version built with gcc 2.95 to work
we are walking in the dark a bit.

> Off for 1/2 weekend's rest and to replace a dead car.

Terminally dead? Not fun - what did you buy?

regards,

Colin

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