[Balloon] Re: bootldr woes

[Nick Bane]

Colin Tuckley wrote:
> Nick Bane wrote:
> 
> 
>>Most interesting.
> 
> 
> That wasn't what I said <g>
> 
Indeed...

>>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?
> 
That is very surprising indeed. I will get TCL to check that the one I 
am building works/fails. In the meantime I have built the small versions 
of 30/31/32/33 and put then in the dev branch of releases on husaberg 
for you to test. If you find one that works and another that doesn't it 
will give a clue. Do call me on 01954 719270 if you want to talk.

> 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 whole point about bootldr.small is that it knows about NOR and 
serial and nothing else so it should work with any loon2.

> 
>>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.
> 
Yes indeed.
> 
>>Off for 1/2 weekend's rest and to replace a dead car.
> 
> 
> Terminally dead? Not fun - what did you buy?
> 
Nearly a Zafira. Checking suitabilty (ie not raging unsuitability) for 
eldest daughter learning to drive in it was successful. Now to hunt the 
right one down.

Nick
> regards,
> 
> Colin
>