Re: Newbie looking to figure out how to do a port!
[email protected] (Peter Seebach) Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:28:42 -0600
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In message <[email protected]>, "Nathan J. Willia ms" writes: >This is a handy technique I've used as well. Again, if you've got a >couple of LEDs on the board you can poke before you start an infinite >loop, so much the better. There might be some kind of LED, but I haven't found it. I should read the docs more. >Now, if someone were paying you to do this, it would probably be >worthwhile to invest in a JTAG tool to poke around at the early-stage >booting (a RISCwatch for this board, I think), but probably not for a >hobbyist. I'm sort of getting paid. I'm selling developerWorks "one or more articles" on porting NetBSD to new hardware. Frustratingly, NetBSD is so good that I doubt I'll have enough material for a second article. -s