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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 <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6 %general-entities;
7 %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-colo" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="colo.html"?>
12
13 <title>Colo-&colo-version;</title>
14
15 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo">
16 <primary sortas="a-Colo">Colo</primary>
17 </indexterm>
18
19 <sect2 role="package">
20 <title/>
21
22 <para>The Colo package contains the Cobalt Boot Loader.</para>
23
24 <segmentedlist>
25 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
26 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
27
28 <seglistitem>
29 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
30 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
31 </seglistitem>
32 </segmentedlist>
33
34 <segmentedlist>
35 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
36
37 <seglistitem>
38 <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc,
39 Grep, Make, Ncurses, Sed</seg>
40 </seglistitem>
41 </segmentedlist>
42
43 </sect2>
44
45 <sect2 role="installation">
46 <title>Installation of Colo</title>
47
48 <para os="a">Compile the Colo package:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
51
52 <para os="b">Install the package:</para>
53
54<screen os="c"><userinput>install -d /usr/lib/colo/examples
55install binaries/colo-chain.elf /usr/lib/colo
56install binaries/colo-rom-image.bin /usr/lib/colo
57install tools/colo-perm/colo-perm /sbin
58install tools/colo-perm/colo-perm.8 /usr/man/man8
59install tools/elf2rfx/elf2rfx /sbin
60install tools/flash-tool/flash-tool /sbin
61install tools/flash-tool/flash-tool.8 /usr/man/man8
62install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd /sbin
63install tools/lcdtools/e2fsck-lcd/e2fsck-lcd.8 /usr/man/man8
64install tools/lcdtools/liblcd/liblcd.a /lib
65install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld /sbin
66install tools/lcdtools/paneld/paneld.8 /usr/man/man8
67install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd /sbin
68install tools/lcdtools/putlcd/putlcd.8 /usr/man/man8
69install examples/menu.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
70install examples/simple.colo /usr/lib/colo/examples
71cp binaries/colo-chain.elf /boot/vmlinux
72gzip -9 /boot/vmlinux</userinput></screen>
73
74 </sect2>
75
76 <sect2 id="contents-colo" role="content">
77 <title>Contents of Colo</title>
78
79 <segmentedlist>
80 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
81
82 <seglistitem>
83 <seg>colo-chain.elf, colo-rom-image.bin, colo-perm, elf2rfx,
84 flash-tool, e2fsck-lcd, paneld and putlcd</seg>
85 </seglistitem>
86 </segmentedlist>
87
88 <variablelist>
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
90 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
91 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
92
93 <varlistentry id="colo-chain.elf">
94 <term><command>colo</command></term>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>Is the Cobalt Bootloader's chain mode executeable. This
97 file gets gzipped and renamed to <filename>vmlinux.gz</filename>,
98 so it can be booted automatically by the Cobalt's existing
99 firmware</para>
100 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-chain.elf">
101 <primary sortas="b-colo-chain.elf">colo-chain.elf</primary>
102 </indexterm>
103 </listitem>
104 </varlistentry>
105
106 <varlistentry id="colo-rom-image.bin">
107 <term><command>colo-rom-image.bin</command></term>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>Is a replacement firmware for the Cobalt's standard
110 firmware</para>
111 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-rom-image.bin">
112 <primary sortas="b-colo-rom-image.bin">colo-rom-image.bin</primary>
113 </indexterm>
114 </listitem>
115 </varlistentry>
116
117 <varlistentry id="colo-perm">
118 <term><command>colo-perm</command></term>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>Is a tool which looks in the ROM of a Cobalt machine for a
121 magic string identifying CoLo. This way, it can be determined if
122 the original Cobalt firmware is used or whether CoLo has been
123 flashed to the ROM</para>
124 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo colo-perm">
125 <primary sortas="b-colo-perm">colo-perm</primary>
126 </indexterm>
127 </listitem>
128 </varlistentry>
129
130 <varlistentry id="elf2rfx">
131 <term><command>elf2rfx</command></term>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>UNKNOWN</para>
134 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo elf2rfx">
135 <primary sortas="b-elf2rfx">elf2rfx</primary>
136 </indexterm>
137 </listitem>
138 </varlistentry>
139
140 <varlistentry id="flash-tool">
141 <term><command>flash-tool</command></term>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>Read or write Cobalt's firmware flash memory</para>
144 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo flash-tool">
145 <primary sortas="b-flash-tool">flash-tool</primary>
146 </indexterm>
147 </listitem>
148 </varlistentry>
149
150 <varlistentry id="e2fsck-lcd">
151 <term><command>e2fsck-lcd</command></term>
152 <listitem>
153 <para>Will output file system check progress information on the
154 Cobalt LCD</para>
155 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo e2fsck-lcd">
156 <primary sortas="b-e2fsck-lcd">e2fsck-lcd</primary>
157 </indexterm>
158 </listitem>
159 </varlistentry>
160
161 <varlistentry id="paneld">
162 <term><command>paneld</command></term>
163 <listitem>
164 <para>Is an admin tool for the LCD panel of Cobalt machines. By
165 default, it will display the current time and optionally a message.
166 When you hold the enter or select button for a couple of seconds
167 you will get an admin menu. The menu will allow you to either halt
168 or reboot your Cobalt machine</para>
169 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo paneld">
170 <primary sortas="b-paneld">paneld</primary>
171 </indexterm>
172 </listitem>
173 </varlistentry>
174
175 <varlistentry id="putlcd">
176 <term><command>putlcd</command></term>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>Is a tool to display text on the LCD display of Cobalt
179 machines</para>
180 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo putlcd">
181 <primary sortas="b-putlcd">putlcd</primary>
182 </indexterm>
183 </listitem>
184 </varlistentry>
185
186 <varlistentry id="md5rom">
187 <term><command>md5rom</command></term>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>Will output the MD5 checksum of a Cobalt's ROM</para>
190 <indexterm zone="ch-system-colo md5rom">
191 <primary sortas="b-md5rom">md5rom</primary>
192 </indexterm>
193 </listitem>
194 </varlistentry>
195
196 </variablelist>
197
198 </sect2>
199
200</sect1>
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