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Re: Simple Redboot Q's
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Matt Sartori <msartori at hanoverdisplays dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:05:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Simple Redboot Q's
- References: <F9885E669725F248A1F6DB9109FDD6793570E5@Molly.hanover.local>
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:16:15AM +0100, Matt Sartori wrote:
> Does an application that is loaded and run by Redboot have to be linked
> against the eCos libraries?
No. eg your application could be Linux, which will simply take
complete control of the hardware.
> What provisions would be necessary to make this work (e.g.. you
> obviously don't want your app to overwrite the rom area Redboot sits in)
> and are there any examples of this out there?
Look at how Linux is booted using RedBoot.
Andrew
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