MPC8BUG crashes on Windows 95/98/NT

MPC8BUG crashes on Windows 95/98/NT

[Nicolas Pohland]

Hi,

I am a PPC newbie, but after checking the FAQ and mailing lists I have 
found a lot of helpful hints but nothing quite addresses my problem.

I am one of the poor sods trying to get a FADS 860T board to work. I
have 
used the cross compiler tools to generate an image of the embedded-2.2.5 
kernel version. 

I had to guess a lot of flags - does someone have a FADS 860T config
file ? 
There seems to be one for everything else ...

I then thought I would just use the MPC8BUG program to program the flash
with
the generated image. 

Is this the correct way of doing this ? Or do I need a Linux tool chain
and
a soldering iron ?

I received my ADI board, read and followed the readme procedure and 
hooked it up to the FADS. But when I try to start the MPC8BUG or
MPC8BUG95 program,
it just crashes under all 3 Windows versions. I have also tried
different IO addresses 
(0x100, 0x200 and 0x300) and used 2 different PCs (133 and 450 Mhz). 

The BIOS of the boards does NOT allow me to set the ISA bus frequency.

The MPC8bug version is 1.6.

Did someone experience also have this problem ?

Or have a viable alternative ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nicolas Pohland

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Re: MPC8BUG crashes on Windows 95/98/NT

[Dan Malek]

Nicolas Pohland wrote:


> Did someone experience also have this problem ?

Yes....


> Or have a viable alternative ?

Yes....


> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Go into the e-mail archives and read my past messages.  It has
helped some people.....and pissed off others.....


	-- Dan

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Re: MPC8BUG crashes on Windows 95/98/NT

[Nicolas Pohland]

Dan Malek wrote:

> 
> Go into the e-mail archives and read my past messages.  It has
> helped some people.....and pissed off others.....

Essentially the email lists imply to chuck the FADS. Is this a correct
summary ?

I downloaded mpc8bug version 1.5 from
http://www.motorola.com/SPS/ADC/pps/subpgs/etoolbox/8XX/MPC8bug.html 
after getting tipped off and this worked under NT 4.0 SP 5 when merging
this with the 1.6 configuration files of mpc8bug.

HINTS
-----

ELF files sre supported by LOADF but only after specifying -Ttext to
0x2800000.

The first parameter for mpc8bug is not the base address of the ADI board
divided by 0x100. Instead it is the index into the
device list (normally 0).


I will now continue to debug the image unless a tarball with a FADS 860T
floats along :-). I will be happy to provide one
once I am finished.

Nicolas

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Re: MPC8BUG crashes on Windows 95/98/NT

[Dan Malek]

Nicolas Pohland wrote:


> Essentially the email lists imply to chuck the FADS. Is this a correct
> summary ?

Well, I prefer not to use it because in the past it has not
been a pleasant experience for me :-).  Just consider how much
time you have already spent.....There are other options where
you could have been writing your application software within
minutes of opening the box.

For some people in big companies with nice salaries, this may
not be a problem.  For a product and software development
consultant like me, assisting start up companies to bring
products to market in record time and lowest cost, tools like
these are horribly inefficient.


	-- Dan

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