Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room

[todthgie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" 
To: "todthgie" 
Cc: "LinuxBIOS Mailing List" 
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 23:55
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] LinuxBIOS panic room
> Hi,
>
> On 30.08.2007 21:59, todthgie wrote:
> > for some time now i have a bootloader in my howbrew rom emulator that can
> > read / write to memory in on a byte basis and on a block basis using iHex
> > for the block ones
> > i have adapted it it to run on the pc in porting LB to right now. it can
> > erase flash sectors or the whole chip.
>
> Nice. Can you send a patch/tarball?

i will make a website for the romemulator.
the lb version is to big a hacke to pubish atm and im having stabilty 
problems with it... if you are realy interested panic.c is attached
if i figure out how to make a V3 target for my board and how to enable CAR 
on a IBM/Cyrix 6X86MX i will port it to V3.
> > im thinking about extending it with IO read/write and pci read/write for 
> > the
> > larger version ( i only have 8Kbyte atm and that is thight for romcc
> > compiled code:-( )
>
> So you use romcc?

yes and im having LOADS of trouble
> > i use single letters in the range G-Z for commands and ignore 0-9 and A-F
> > that way if a hex download is aborted it just ignores the rest of the 
> > input
> >
> > a nice addition would be to emit the welcome message over and over again
> > with some delay in between (so the reciever is not stressed to much) 
> > until
> > the first command
>
> Yeah, a delay between messages in wait mode would be nice.
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel