How to run a "Hello world" on ppc board?

Frank emitted:

if your serial-device on your ppc would be /dev/ttyS0 then try

/../MyHelloWorld 2>%1 >/dev/ttyS0

in your startup script. May by you have to set the right baudrate eg. first.

You could also open and configure the device from whithin your programm

const char msg[] = {"\nHallo luna.\n"};

int main(int argc, char** argv, char** envp) { int tty=open("/dev/ttYS0",..... // setup the term by ioctl if needed write(tty,msg, sizeof(msg)); close(tty); return main(0,"",""); }

mfg j.

Read the manuals that come with MontaVista's distribution, and get the board to boot the MontaVista kernel via TFTP and NFS. You can then cross-compile a test program, put it in the NFS exported directory on your host, and either use ssh or a serial terminal (minicom) to log in and run the program.

Blane.

I think I didn't make myself clear. I haven't had the linux kernel running on my board yet. The board has only a boot loader. The boot loader has TFTP and serial port enabled. I am wondering if I can run a program _before_ I load the linux kernel? In another word, can I use the boot loader to load a C program and send some data to serial port so that I can monitor it through minicom?

Thanks, Frank

Sure, if your program knows how to manage resources (memory, devices) and handle external events, in other words if your program *is* an operating system.

You must provide more details. Which boot loader, for example?

Some of them, like U-Boot for example, allow you to use "standalone applications" which can use services provided by the boot loader, like standard functions as printf() etc.

Other boot loaders don't provide any interface to their builtin drivers, so you will probably end up re-coding your own serial driver if you need console output.

Also, there may be a C runtime environment, or there may be not.

I cannot even guess without precise information.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

The boot loader I am using is vxworks boot loader. It's a left-over of the last project. I just don't have a way to update the boot loader in flash, so I just use as it is.

Does vxworks boot loader provide console output interface?

Thanks, Frank

The short answer to your question is "No". The VxWorks boot loader is intended to load an entire executable OS. You use the loader to load the OS, (commonly referred to as a BSP), then you can use the tornado development suite to give you an interface, or you can interact directly with a shell, if the BSP was built with one. The loader tpyically has a few built-in commands, but it cannot link new programs into itself.

Speaking only for myself,

Joe Durusau

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