Programming Embedded Systems, Second Edition
by Michael Barr, Anthony Massa

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

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This page was updated April 15, 2008.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


[72] RedBoot (Section); minicom setup.;
(This is not an error). I used this page for my minicom setup:
(Pete's Notes)
http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/nets/intro/staff/siemsen/tools/minicom.html#dfl


{74} File transfer using minicom on Linux is not covered. ;
After:
(in minicom)
RedBoot> load -x modem

CTRL-A Z to get Minicom Command Summary.

Choose S to send files.

[Upload] Choose xmodem.

Use arrow keyes and space (possibly need to hit space twice) to navigate to blink.exe in your 
directory structure. Select blink.exe and hit Enter. This begins the trasfer. If all goes well, you 
see:

&#9484;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;[xmodem upload 
- Press CTRL-C to 
quit]&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9488;
|Retry 0: NAK on sector &#9474;
&#9474;Retry 0: NAK on sector &#9474;
&#9474;Bytes Sent: 3328 BPS:1259 &#9474;
&#9474; &#9474;
&#9474;Transfer complete &#9474;
&#9474; &#9474;
&#9474; READY: press any key to continue... &#9474;
&#9492;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&
#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#
9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9
472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#94
72;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9472;&#9496;

And then, beneath:

RedBoot> load -m xmodem

which you had typed earlier, you'll see:

CEntry point: 0x00400180, address range: 0x00400000-0x004001d4
xyzModem - CRC mode, 28(SOH)/0(STX)/0(CAN) packets, 5 retries

PS: I'm using gcc-4.2.1 


{79} GDB Connection Problems;
This is not an error, but a suggestion to include the suggestion to:

set remotebaud 115200

in GDB. It helped fix some unrecognized packet/connection timed out kind
of error I was having (but unfortunately now I am not able to reproduce the problem).


(265) 3rd Paragraph;
Today's (4-10-08) price for the VIPER-Lite Embedded Linux Development Kit is US$598.00 including discount. I was concerned the Arcom rep and I were not talking about the same product until I checked back on the review page for this book and saw an anonymous reviewer who was quoted full boat of $997.00.

May I suggest in the next printing you change "$295 (plus shipping)" to "40% discount".