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Re: Simple Redboot Q's
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:05 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 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.
There is also pretty good support for building programs with
newlib. In this case, newlib uses facilities (such as terminal
I/O, etc) exported by RedBoot.
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