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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 <para os="a">Compile the Colo package:</para>
37
38<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
39
40 <para os="b">Install the package:</para>
41
42<screen os="c"><userinput>install -d /usr/lib/colo/examples
43install binaries/colo-chain.elf /usr/lib/colo
44install binaries/colo-rom-image.bin /usr/lib/colo
45install tools/colo-perm/colo-perm /sbin
46install tools/colo-perm/colo-perm.8 /usr/man/man8
47install tools/elf2rfx/elf2rfx /sbin
48install tools/flash-tool/flash-tool /sbin
49install tools/flash-tool/flash-tool.8 /usr/man/man8
50install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd /sbin
51install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd.8 /usr/man/man8
52install tools/lcdtools/liblcd/liblcd.a /lib
53install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld /sbin
54install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld.8 /usr/man/man8
55install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd /sbin
56install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd.8 /usr/man/man8
57install examples/menu.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
58install examples/simple.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
59cp binaries/colo-chain.elf /boot/vmlinux
60gzip -9 /boot/vmlinux</userinput></screen>
61
62 </sect2>
63
64 <sect2 id="contents-colo" role="content">
65 <title>Contents of Colo</title>
66
67 <segmentedlist>
68 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
69
70 <seglistitem>
71 <seg>colo-chain.elf, colo-rom-image.bin, colo-perm, elf2rfx,
72 flash-tool, e2fsck-lcd, paneld and putlcd</seg>
73 </seglistitem>
74 </segmentedlist>
75
76 <variablelist>
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
78 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
79 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
80
81 <varlistentry id="colo-chain.elf">
82 <term><command>colo</command></term>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>Is the Cobalt Bootloader's chain mode executeable. This
85 file gets gzipped and renamed to <filename>vmlinux.gz</filename>,
86 so it can be booted automatically by the Cobalt's existing
87 firmware</para>
88 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-chain.elf">
89 <primary sortas="b-colo-chain.elf">colo-chain.elf</primary>
90 </indexterm>
91 </listitem>
92 </varlistentry>
93
94 <varlistentry id="colo-rom-image.bin">
95 <term><command>colo-rom-image.bin</command></term>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>Is a replacement firmware for the Cobalt's standard
98 firmware</para>
99 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-rom-image.bin">
100 <primary sortas="b-colo-rom-image.bin">colo-rom-image.bin</primary>
101 </indexterm>
102 </listitem>
103 </varlistentry>
104
105 <varlistentry id="colo-perm">
106 <term><command>colo-perm</command></term>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>Is a tool which looks in the ROM of a Cobalt machine for a
109 magic string identifying CoLo. This way, it can be determined if
110 the original Cobalt firmware is used or whether CoLo has been
111 flashed to the ROM</para>
112 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-perm">
113 <primary sortas="b-colo-perm">colo-perm</primary>
114 </indexterm>
115 </listitem>
116 </varlistentry>
117
118 <varlistentry id="elf2rfx">
119 <term><command>elf2rfx</command></term>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>UNKNOWN</para>
122 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo elf2rfx">
123 <primary sortas="b-elf2rfx">elf2rfx</primary>
124 </indexterm>
125 </listitem>
126 </varlistentry>
127
128 <varlistentry id="flash-tool">
129 <term><command>flash-tool</command></term>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>Read or write Cobalt's firmware flash memory</para>
132 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo flash-tool">
133 <primary sortas="b-flash-tool">flash-tool</primary>
134 </indexterm>
135 </listitem>
136 </varlistentry>
137
138 <varlistentry id="e2fsck-lcd">
139 <term><command>e2fsck-lcd</command></term>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>Will output file system check progress information on the
142 Cobalt LCD</para>
143 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo e2fsck-lcd">
144 <primary sortas="b-e2fsck-lcd">e2fsck-lcd</primary>
145 </indexterm>
146 </listitem>
147 </varlistentry>
148
149 <varlistentry id="paneld">
150 <term><command>paneld</command></term>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>Is an admin tool for the LCD panel of Cobalt machines. By
153 default, it will display the current time and optionally a message.
154 When you hold the enter or select button for a couple of seconds
155 you will get an admin menu. The menu will allow you to either halt
156 or reboot your Cobalt machine</para>
157 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo paneld">
158 <primary sortas="b-paneld">paneld</primary>
159 </indexterm>
160 </listitem>
161 </varlistentry>
162
163 <varlistentry id="putlcd">
164 <term><command>putlcd</command></term>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>Is a tool to display text on the LCD display of Cobalt
167 machines</para>
168 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo putlcd">
169 <primary sortas="b-putlcd">putlcd</primary>
170 </indexterm>
171 </listitem>
172 </varlistentry>
173
174 <varlistentry id="md5rom">
175 <term><command>md5rom</command></term>
176 <listitem>
177 <para>Will output the MD5 checksum of a Cobalt's ROM</para>
178 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo md5rom">
179 <primary sortas="b-md5rom">md5rom</primary>
180 </indexterm>
181 </listitem>
182 </varlistentry>
183
184 </variablelist>
185
186 </sect2>
187
188</sect1>
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