Re: Load 3MB image into PCI device ROM at the very fi- rst time?

Hi, Daniel:

I am sorry. The linux loader code is not written by us. We don’t know much
about it because we even don’t have the source code. That is why we want to
get rid of it. I am looking for the possibility of windows 2000, but I don’t
know if it is possible.

zhongsheng

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Pop [mailto:xxxxx@optsol.ro]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 10:04 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Load 3MB image into PCI device ROM at the very
first time?

Hi Zhongsheng,

Can you please tell me where can I find documentation and another
useful resources for Linux PCI driver development. I’ll be soon in
position to do a similar task of yours and I need a starting point.

Thanks!
Daniel

> Hi, I get this particular question. I have written a device driver on NT
> 4.0 for a PCI device which has an embedded i960 CPU running VxWorks.
When
> we run my device driver at very first time, we have to load VxWorks core
> image (about 3MB) into the flash ROM on PCI device so that i960 can run
> VxWorks. I can not do that on NT because of the fixed size of PCI
> configuration for each device, so we write a Linux driver and use it to
> load VxWorks image into flash ROM. Now we are going to use Windows 2000,
> my question is that, is it possible to have windows 2000 device driver
to
> load VxWorks image into PCI device?
>
> Do you know what I mean? At the very beginning, i960 has no VxWorks
image
> to run, so we have to load this image into flash ROM on PCI device by
> someway. After we burn VxWorks image into ROM, i960 is alive, but before
> then, i960 has no OS to run. We originally solve that problem by using
> Linux driver because Linux has many flexibilities for PCI configuration.
I
> don’t know much about windows 2000, so I don’t know if it is possible to
> let windows 2000 load VxWorks image into PCI device ROM. Has anybody had
> the similar experience? Could you give me any advice? Thanks,
>
> zhongsheng
> Tektronix, Inc.


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