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RE: Placing binary file into RAM on target
- To: Warren Jasper <wjasper at tx dot ncsu dot edu>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Placing binary file into RAM on target
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:09:39 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 26-Jul-2001 Warren Jasper wrote:
>
> Does anybody know of a way to place an arbitrary binary file into
> SDRAM on a target if one is running gdb stubs? I am running a
> Intel StrongARM SA1110, and would like to load a program into
> FLASH via eCos (as opposed to JTAG via a parallel port with JFLASH).
>
Use RedBoot :-)
> gdb will only load elf type files, so I guess one option is to convert a
> file into "elf" and have the loader put it into memory. Is there an easy way
> to do this or a better way?
This would work. However, RedBoot is a more flexible option since you have
the ability to relocate [move] the code on the fly, perform checksums, etc.