YAMON Source code modification

YAMON Source code modification

[Adeel Malik]

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We want to port and 'run' YAMON to our own MIPS-based Development Board. Can
someone tell me what changes are necessary in the YAMON source code so that
it works on our board ?.
Regards,
ADEEL MALIK,
 


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Re: YAMON Source code modification

[Jun Sun]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:46:19PM +0500, Adeel Malik wrote:
> We want to port and 'run' YAMON to our own MIPS-based Development Board. Can
> someone tell me what changes are necessary in the YAMON source code so that
> it works on our board ?.
> Regards,
> ADEEL MALIK,
>  

Actually is YAMON code freely available?  Can someone from MIPS confirm
that and perhaps point to the downloading place?  

Many people have asked me about this in the past ...

Jun

Re: YAMON Source code modification

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20031009110154.B17781@mvista.com> you wrote:
>
> Actually is YAMON code freely available?  Can someone from MIPS confirm
> that and perhaps point to the downloading place?  

It is available for free, but under a special license  that  prevents
you  from  using  it  for any hardware that is not a MIPS "Authorized
Product". See http://www.mips.com/LicenseMapper/Yamon_license


An alternative is to use  U-Boot,  the  universal  boot  loader  that
covers not only MIPS but also PowerPC, ARM, and even x86 systems. See
http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot

U-Boot is strictly GPL.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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RE: YAMON Source code modification

[Mitchell, Earl]

The YAMON license agreement is here which
essentially says its GPL but read this anyway ... 

http://www.mips.com/LicenseMapper/Yamon_license

The YAMON source code is here ... 

http://www.mips.com/content/Products/SoftwareTools/yamon

Last time I read it the YAMON porting guide doc included
with this distribution was kinda weak. That is, it does
not explicitly tell you which files to change and so on
compared to something like Wind River's porting guide
for vxworks which is very explicit and detailed. But
hey vxworks is a commercial product and this is free code. ;-) 

If you've ported a boot loader before you know the
usual things you have to change (e.g. exception
handlers, memory map specific stuff, device drivers,
memory initialization, etc). The porting guide is not 
very explicit about which files each
of these items is located in. So last time I ported
YAMON I simply walked thru the code starting from
./yamon/arch/reset/bootvector/reset.S and modified 
what I needed to as I hit code that needed to change.
You'd end up doing this anyway for bringup debugging.
In most cases a LOT of code will be reusable because
YAMON detects what core you have etc. So the amount of 
code you need to add/change is dependent on how close your
target hardware is to what's already supported. 

There are other boot loaders available you can use
like U-boot, Redboot, PMON, etc. The knock on YAMON
is that its much bigger than these other loaders. That's because
guys who originally wrote it chose not to use 'ifdefs' 
and conditional compiles for all the variants. So you get 
code linked in for all the variations (even though that
code is not used) and it jumps to correct routines
depending on your architecture. Makes the maintenance
easier I guess. Not really meant to be used as a production
bootrom in products but is used for eval boards. 

-earlm


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From: Jun Sun [mailto:jsun@mvista.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:02 AM
To: Adeel Malik
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Subject: Re: YAMON Source code modification


On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:46:19PM +0500, Adeel Malik wrote:
> We want to port and 'run' YAMON to our own MIPS-based Development Board.
Can
> someone tell me what changes are necessary in the YAMON source code so
that
> it works on our board ?.
> Regards,
> ADEEL MALIK,
>  

Actually is YAMON code freely available?  Can someone from MIPS confirm
that and perhaps point to the downloading place?  

Many people have asked me about this in the past ...

Jun