Beagleboard bare metal "Hello world"

[rraf]

I have a Beagleboard-xm rev C which is what is used in this tutorial http://wiki.osdev.org/ARM_Beagleboard

I'm trying to use a c function to print a simple "Hello world", yet no success.

Here's what I have so far

hello.c

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volatile unsigned int * const UART3DR = (unsigned int *)0x49020000;

void puts(const char *s) {
 while(*s != '\0') { /* Loop until end of string */
  *UART3DR = (unsigned int)(*s); /* Transmit char */
  s++; /* Next char */
 }
}

void hello() {
 puts("Hello, Beagleboard!\n");
}

boot.asm

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.global start
start:
	ldr sp, =stack_bottom
	bl hello
	b .

linker.ld

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ENTRY(start)

MEMORY
{
    ram : ORIGIN = 0x80200000, LENGTH = 0x10000
}

SECTIONS
{
    .hello : { hello.o(.text) } > ram
    .text : { *(.text) } > ram
    .data : { *(.data) } > ram
    .bss : { *(.bss) } > ram
     . = . + 0x5000; /* 4kB of stack memory */
    stack_bottom = .;

}

Makefile

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ARMGNU = arm-linux-gnueabi
 
AOPS = --warn --fatal-warnings
COPS = -Wall -Werror -O2 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -ffreestanding 
 
boot.bin: boot.asm
	$(ARMGNU)-as boot.asm -o boot.o
	$(ARMGNU)-gcc-4.6 -c $(COPS) hello.c -o hello.o
	$(ARMGNU)-ld -T linker.ld hello.o boot.o -o boot.elf
	$(ARMGNU)-objdump -D boot.elf > boot.list
	$(ARMGNU)-objcopy boot.elf -O srec boot.srec
	$(ARMGNU)-objcopy boot.elf -O binary boot.bin

Any pointers?

[brain]

So, what happens? Compile error? Link error? Unexpected or no output?...

[rraf]

So, what happens? Compile error? Link error? Unexpected or no output?...

no output

[rraf]

Two differences between your code and mine (since you're unable to compare yourself, so there):

Missing while ((com_port->lsr & LSR_THRE) == 0);
And I do byte writes while you do full word writes.

Any or all of these may matter.

I've tried writing one char.
I've tried checking the status for the UART after every char.
I've also tried this http://hardwarefreak.wordpress.com/2011 ... xm-part-2/

Prints nothing.

Regards

[rraf]

Does it print anything when you start a different OS? Can you try mine? It certainly does print on my setup.

Yep I've ran Angstrom on the Beagleboard and the ASM example works, though can't get my C code running.

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.equ UART3.BASE,        0x49020000
start:
   ldr r0,=UART3.BASE
   mov r1,#'c'