[U-Boot-Users] Cannot boot reliably vxWorks on PPC44x

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

Hi Niklaus,

On Friday 02 March 2007 16:26, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> BTW, the boot cmd of vxWorks expects a parameter, therefore I think
> it would make sense to apply a patch like
> diff --git a/common/cmd_elf.c b/common/cmd_elf.c
> old mode 100644
> new mode 100755
> index 0e3d56f..dc4eb27
> --- a/common/cmd_elf.c
> +++ b/common/cmd_elf.c
> @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ int do_bootvx (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc,
> char *argv[])
>                         (char *) bootaddr);
>         printf ("## Starting vxWorks at 0x%08lx ...\n", addr);
>
> -       ((void (*)(void)) addr) ();
> +       ((void (*)(int)) addr) (2); /* 0 => BOOT_NORMAL 2=> BOOT_CLEAR */
>
>         puts ("## vxWorks terminated\n");
>         return 1;

Are you sure that this parameter is supported. A quick "googling" only showed 
this parameter in the VxWorks function reboot(), and I don't think this is 
the entry point of the VxWorks image.

Best regards,
Stefan

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