From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: wjasper@tx.ncsu.edu
Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Placing binary file into RAM on target
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:35:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B6062A6.D3394E40@redhat.com>
References: <200107261817.OAA24971@lx10.tx.ncsu.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00840.html

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).
> 
> 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?

echo > foo.c
arm-elf-gcc -c foo.c
arm-elf-objcopy --add-section .loadme=mybinfile foo.o
arm-elf-objcopy --set-section-flags .loadme=alloc,contents,load,data foo.o

Probably anyway :). Close enough for you to work out the rest on your own.

Jifl
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