From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@redhat.com>
To: Warren Jasper <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 14:09:00 -0000
Message-id: <XFMail.20010726150939.gthomas@redhat.com>
References: <200107261817.OAA24971@lx10.tx.ncsu.edu>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00847.html

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.