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From: Peter Desnoyers <pdesnoyers@chinook•com>
To: Andrew Dixon <andrew.dixon@seranoa•com>
Cc: ppclist <linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: programming ppcboot onto an sbc8260 with a vision ice
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 15:08:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C0BDBB4.68EB3E72@chinook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C0BD4F1.DB6591F3@seranoa.com


You need to take the ELF file, ppcboot, and convert it into a .bin file
using the vision ICE convert utility.

The file format referred to as "BIN" in the visionICE documentation
isn't a real binary image - it has a special header.

Andrew Dixon wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to put ppcboot onto my sbc8260 board using a vision ice and I
> was wondering if there is a preferred way to do this?  I've compiled
> ppcboot on a native gcc-2.95 with the commands:
>
> $make sbc8260_config
> $make
>
> and I get a binary file ppcboot.bin.  When I try to program the
> ppcboot.bin onto the flash it complains that the format is not
> recognized as mpc8260 code.
>
> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-03 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03 19:39 programming ppcboot onto an sbc8260 with a vision ice Andrew Dixon
2001-12-03 20:08 ` Peter Desnoyers [this message]
2001-12-03 20:38   ` Andrew Dixon
2001-12-03 22:11     ` Jerry Van Baren
2001-12-04 14:49       ` Andrew Dixon
2001-12-04 15:07         ` Jerry Van Baren
2001-12-04 15:28           ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-12-04 15:25         ` Wolfgang Denk

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