Re: [ECOS]Bootable applications

["survey liu" <liuxw at 263 dot net>]

So, why this hints are not mentioned in the documents?
I don't think the documents for eCos are well-written, especially for a newbie.

Best regards,
Survey Liu
liuxw@263.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Larmour" <jlarmour@redhat.com>
To: "survey liu" <liuxw@263.net>
Cc: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS]Bootable applications


> > survey liu wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I can use REDBOOT to boot up my target(pc,i386). Also I can build my
> > application with the CT. But I want to know how to build my application
> > codes into a bootable image. I config the start type to be floppy, and
> > build the libs, and then build my application with this libs. But I am
> > really confused. How to start my application? How to build the
> > bootrom/floppy which could boot my target and then run my application?
> 
> i386-elf-objcopy -O binary myapp.exe myapp.bin
> 
> And then put myapp.bin onto the floppy in the same way as you did RedBoot.
> 
> > (Surely I dont want to use a serial line to download my application and
> > then run)
> 
> If you want to debug then yes. If not, then booting straight off floppy is
> fine.
> 
> Jifl
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