source: BOOK/final-system/mips/colo.xml@ 7b34403

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Last change on this file since 7b34403 was 0935d01, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r736@server (orig r734): jim | 2005-11-20 23:10:43 -0800

r747@server: jim | 2005-11-20 22:42:51 -0800
Added: arcload and dvhtool for MIPS builds


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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-colo" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="colo.html"?>
10
11 <title>Colo-&colo-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo">
14 <primary sortas="a-Colo">Colo</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Colo package contains the Cobalt Boot Loader.</para>
21
22 <segmentedlist>
23 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
24
25 <seglistitem>
26 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc,
27 Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg>
28 </seglistitem>
29 </segmentedlist>
30
31 </sect2>
32
33 <sect2 role="installation">
34 <title>Installation of Colo</title>
35
36 <note os="a">
37 <para>This bootloader is for the MIPS based cobalt servers RaQ,
38 RaQ2, Qube, or the Qube2.</para>
39 </note>
40
41 <para os="b">Compile the Colo package:</para>
42
43<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
44
45 <para os="c">Install the package:</para>
46
47<screen os="d"><userinput>install -d /usr/lib/colo/examples
48install binaries/colo-chain.elf /usr/lib/colo
49install binaries/colo-rom-image.bin /usr/lib/colo
50install tools/colo-perm/colo-perm /sbin
51install tools/colo-perm/colo-perm.8 /usr/man/man8
52install tools/elf2rfx/elf2rfx /sbin
53install tools/flash-tool/flash-tool /sbin
54install tools/flash-tool/flash-tool.8 /usr/man/man8
55install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd /sbin
56install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd.8 /usr/man/man8
57install tools/lcdtools/liblcd/liblcd.a /lib
58install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld /sbin
59install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld.8 /usr/man/man8
60install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd /sbin
61install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd.8 /usr/man/man8
62install examples/menu.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
63install examples/simple.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
64cp binaries/colo-chain.elf /boot/vmlinux
65gzip -9 /boot/vmlinux</userinput></screen>
66
67 </sect2>
68
69 <sect2 id="contents-colo" role="content">
70 <title>Contents of Colo</title>
71
72 <segmentedlist>
73 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
74
75 <seglistitem>
76 <seg>colo-chain.elf, colo-rom-image.bin, colo-perm, elf2rfx,
77 flash-tool, e2fsck-lcd, paneld and putlcd</seg>
78 </seglistitem>
79 </segmentedlist>
80
81 <variablelist>
82 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
83 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
84 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
85
86 <varlistentry id="colo-chain.elf">
87 <term><command>colo</command></term>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>Is the Cobalt Bootloader's chain mode executeable. This
90 file gets gzipped and renamed to <filename>vmlinux.gz</filename>,
91 so it can be booted automatically by the Cobalt's existing
92 firmware</para>
93 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-chain.elf">
94 <primary sortas="b-colo-chain.elf">colo-chain.elf</primary>
95 </indexterm>
96 </listitem>
97 </varlistentry>
98
99 <varlistentry id="colo-rom-image.bin">
100 <term><command>colo-rom-image.bin</command></term>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>Is a replacement firmware for the Cobalt's standard
103 firmware</para>
104 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-rom-image.bin">
105 <primary sortas="b-colo-rom-image.bin">colo-rom-image.bin</primary>
106 </indexterm>
107 </listitem>
108 </varlistentry>
109
110 <varlistentry id="colo-perm">
111 <term><command>colo-perm</command></term>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>Is a tool which looks in the ROM of a Cobalt machine for a
114 magic string identifying CoLo. This way, it can be determined if
115 the original Cobalt firmware is used or whether CoLo has been
116 flashed to the ROM</para>
117 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-perm">
118 <primary sortas="b-colo-perm">colo-perm</primary>
119 </indexterm>
120 </listitem>
121 </varlistentry>
122
123 <varlistentry id="elf2rfx">
124 <term><command>elf2rfx</command></term>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>UNKNOWN</para>
127 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo elf2rfx">
128 <primary sortas="b-elf2rfx">elf2rfx</primary>
129 </indexterm>
130 </listitem>
131 </varlistentry>
132
133 <varlistentry id="flash-tool">
134 <term><command>flash-tool</command></term>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>Read or write Cobalt's firmware flash memory</para>
137 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo flash-tool">
138 <primary sortas="b-flash-tool">flash-tool</primary>
139 </indexterm>
140 </listitem>
141 </varlistentry>
142
143 <varlistentry id="e2fsck-lcd">
144 <term><command>e2fsck-lcd</command></term>
145 <listitem>
146 <para>Will output file system check progress information on the
147 Cobalt LCD</para>
148 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo e2fsck-lcd">
149 <primary sortas="b-e2fsck-lcd">e2fsck-lcd</primary>
150 </indexterm>
151 </listitem>
152 </varlistentry>
153
154 <varlistentry id="paneld">
155 <term><command>paneld</command></term>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>Is an admin tool for the LCD panel of Cobalt machines. By
158 default, it will display the current time and optionally a message.
159 When you hold the enter or select button for a couple of seconds
160 you will get an admin menu. The menu will allow you to either halt
161 or reboot your Cobalt machine</para>
162 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo paneld">
163 <primary sortas="b-paneld">paneld</primary>
164 </indexterm>
165 </listitem>
166 </varlistentry>
167
168 <varlistentry id="putlcd">
169 <term><command>putlcd</command></term>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>Is a tool to display text on the LCD display of Cobalt
172 machines</para>
173 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo putlcd">
174 <primary sortas="b-putlcd">putlcd</primary>
175 </indexterm>
176 </listitem>
177 </varlistentry>
178
179 <varlistentry id="md5rom">
180 <term><command>md5rom</command></term>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>Will output the MD5 checksum of a Cobalt's ROM</para>
183 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo md5rom">
184 <primary sortas="b-md5rom">md5rom</primary>
185 </indexterm>
186 </listitem>
187 </varlistentry>
188
189 </variablelist>
190
191 </sect2>
192
193</sect1>
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