dink32 downloads

dink32 downloads

[Adrian Cox]

Has anybody got a reliable recipe for downloading code over the serial
port to a Sandpoint running dink32 (version 12, rev 0)? I'd prefer to do
it from Linux, but right now I'd accept NT.

I've so far tried minicom, cu, and hyperterminal. Minicom claims to
upload a 100k ascii file in <1 second. cu takes about the right time,
but dink32 eventually starts reading the s-records as commands.
Hyperterminal simply becomes unresponsive when I try to send an ascii
file.

- Adrian Cox, AG Electronics

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Re: dink32 downloads

[Alex Shnitman]

Hi, Adrian!

On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:38:29PM +0000, you wrote the following:

> Has anybody got a reliable recipe for downloading code over the serial
> port to a Sandpoint running dink32 (version 12, rev 0)? I'd prefer to do
> it from Linux, but right now I'd accept NT.

I work with the Sandpoint via minicom, and upload the files via
ascii-xfr. In minicom I give it the command 'sb -k 38400', then change
the speed in minicom (Alt-P G Enter; may be mistaken, reciting from
memory), and then type on the command line 'ascii-xfr -svn file >
/dev/ttyS0' . It then uploads the file fine at 38400. (You have to
make sure the file has Unix-style newlines, though.)


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Re: dink32 downloads

[Adrian Cox]

Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> Hi, Adrian!

> (You have to
> make sure the file has Unix-style newlines, though.)

Thanks. That was my problem all along. It turns out that
powerpc-eabi-objcopy -O srec puts DOS style newlines in the output.

- Adrian Cox, AG Electronics

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