Re: [ECOS] dividing the elf object file file in to two binary files

[ganesh kr <krganesh01@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the response Martin. Since I am new to ecos and GNU tools,
can any one please provide the reference linker script file to do the
same

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Martin Laabs<info@martinlaabs.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ganesh kr wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using ecos with lwip. I have two flash memory chips of 128 KB
>> each at addr 0x04000000 and 0x08000000. the binary file is 140KB. I
>> want to have two binary files from the elf object file so that i can
>> load one binary file in to each flash. Also I have two libraries
>> libapp.a and libtarget.a. please let me know how can i do this.
>
> You have to change the linker script to get two sections for .text.
> However - you have to give every section an unique name.  To assign
> functions/files to each section you can use the linker script as well
> as the __attribute__ ((section ("<section name>"))) attribute before
> any function or variable.
>
> At the end you get one elf file with different section that can be
> separated by objcopy/objdump.
>
> Here a short example from an old project:
>
> #define INSRAM_DATA __attribute__ ((section (".sram_data")))
> #define INSRAM_TEXT __attribute__ ((section (".sram_text")))
>
> cyg_uint32 rawData[20][64] INSRAM_DATA; //[Channel][TimeSlot]
>
> void INSRAM_TEXT
> reader(cyg_addrword_t data)
> {
> ...
> }
>
> Greetings,
>  Martin Laabs
>
> PS: If you call function in one segment out of the other
> segment you have to use far jumps like that:
>
> void (*diag_printf_p)( const char *fmt, ... ) =  &diag_printf;
>
> and then call
> diag_printf_p("calculating: %d %d %d\n", i, j, tap); instead of
> diag_printf(....)
>
>

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