Friday, November 11, 2011

eCos/RedBoot - Feature-Rich Bootloader

Technologic Systems provides eCos/RedBoot solutions for our TS-7200 ARM9 computers. eCos is an open source, royalty-free, real-time operating system intended for embedded applications. RedBoot is a complete bootstrap environment for embedded systems based on the eCos Hardware Abstraction Layer.
On the TS-7200 embedded computers, RedBoot is used as feature rich boot-ROM monitor that allows manipulation of the on-board flash, JFFS and YAFFS images, loading and execution of a kernel or executable from either tftp (trivial ftp), http or flash, and gdb debugging stubs. From RedBoot, one can load and execute any standalone binary. Most commonly, a Linux kernel or a Windows CE binary is used. One can also write applications within the eCos environment and load them with RedBoot.

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