From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Thomas To: Warren Jasper Cc: eCos Discussion Subject: Re: [ECOS] Placing binary file into RAM on target Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:39:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200107271231.IAA25770@lx10.tx.ncsu.edu> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00874.html On 27-Jul-2001 Warren Jasper wrote: > > Gary, > > I would use RedBoot if I could. I have tried to compile and run it > for the sa11x0, which I thought I could do easily since I have a > stable working port and gdb-module part working perfectly, but I have > not met with success. > What problems do you have? If you can get GDB stubs working on a platform, RedBoot is anout 3 minutes away... > > -- Warren > > Warren J. Jasper > wjasper@tx.ncsu.edu > >> >>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 wa >>+ y >>> 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.