RE: [ECOS] ELF platform conversion

["Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>]

What about going from assembly to C now?  Is that somewhat possible?
Maybe just part of the way?

  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: gary@chez-thomas.org [mailto:gary@chez-thomas.org] On 
  > Behalf Of Gary Thomas
  > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 2:46 PM
  > To: Trenton D. Adams
  > Cc: eCos discussion
  > Subject: RE: [ECOS] ELF platform conversion
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > On 10-Jul-2001 Trenton D. Adams wrote:
  > > I have an ELF library compiled for the i386.  Is there a way to 
  > > convert this to ELF for my EP7211?  Of course there's 
  > probably not 
  > > because all the device accessing and stuff will no longer 
  > be valid.  
  > > But, maybe there's a way of decoding the elf format, and 
  > then looking 
  > > at the assembly code.  It would be nice to have a tool that would 
  > > decode the ELF, and the ASM functions so I can see where 
  > functions 
  > > begin and end. Anyone know of such a tool?
  > > 
  > 
  > You can always use objdump or gdb.
  > 
  > Try this (be prepared for lots of output):
  >   objdump --disassemble <file>
  > 
  > > Why do I need to do this?  Well, because Orinoco won't 
  > give out any 
  > > programming information on their wireless PCMCIA card, 
  > hence I won't 
  > > be able to complete the project.
  > 
  > Isn't there a Linux driver, or is it only delivered in binary?
  > 
  > Maybe you could use a different card.
  >