Ethernet driver, Rebuilding redboot, Powerpc/mpc860t analogue & micro powerpc 860t – Comtrol eCos User Manual

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Chapter 5. Installation and Testing

NOTE: The MMU has been set up to relocate the VRC4372 supported devices mapped at physical addresses
0x8xxxxxxx to virtual addresses 0xCxxxxxxx.

Ethernet Driver

The ethernet driver is in two parts:

A generic ether driver for the Intel i21143 device is located in

devs/eth/intel/i21143

. Its package name is

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_INTEL_I21143

.

The

platform-specific

ether

driver

is

devs/eth/mips/vrc4375

.

Its

package

is

CYG-

PKG_DEVS_ETH_MIPS_VRC4375

. This tells the generic driver the address in IO memory of the chip, for example,

and other configuration details. The ESA (MAC address) is by default collected from on-board serial EEPROM,
unless configured statically within this package.

Rebuilding RedBoot

These shell variables provide the platform-specific information needed for building RedBoot according to the
procedure described in

Chapter 3

:

export TARGET=vrc4373

export ARCH_DIR=mips

export PLATFORM_DIR=vrc4373

The names of configuration files are listed above with the description of the associated modes.

PowerPC/MPC860T Analogue & Micro PowerPC 860T

Overview

RedBoot uses the SMC1 serial port. The default serial port settings are 38400,8,N,1. Ethernet is also supported
using the RJ-45 connector. Management of onboard flash is also supported.

The following RedBoot configurations are supported:

Configuration

Mode

Description

File

ROMRAM

[ROMRAM]

RedBoot running from
RAM, but contained in the
board’s flash boot sector.

redboot_ROMRAM.ecm

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