Hi Vanalme,

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 02:05:32PM +0100, Vanalme Filip wrote:
> We would like to have a kind of small test application, that can be started 
> from the barebox prompt, to do some basic tests on some hardware components. 
> What's the best way to do that ? E.g. can I add that test application to the 
> environment and would this be good practice ? Or do I better extend the 
> barebox commands with my own command to start the tests ?  Maybe there's an 
> example on how to do it ?

I'm using the attached program to do a simple RAM read/write test on i.MX25.  
This program runs on bare hardware from the internal chip SRAM, and doesn't 
rely on the Barebox run-time code.  I only use Barebox to start this program.

The program is built with the following Makefile rules:

all: ramtest.bin

%.bin: %.elf
    ${OBJCOPY} -O binary $^ $@

ramtest.elf: ramtest.c
    ${CC} -Wall -Os -nostdlib $^ -o $@ -Wl,-Ttext=0x78000000

Running this program from the Barebox prompt:

cp ramtest.bin /dev/sram0
go /dev/sram0

I hope this helps.

baruch

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