Re: [ECOS] redboot elf loader

[Artur Lipowski <LAL at pro dot onet dot pl>]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> It may not even be possible for this to work at all, since that memory
> may be actively used by the loader (hence the checks).
But problem(?) is that checks are performed on the VMA instead of LMA 
(as I expected).

> I'd suggest that you leave this to your startup code.  Have it copy the
> data from the VMA to the LMA - that's how we handle it in eCos.
It also exactly is what I do now, but it cannot be done with existing 
(redboot) code because loader prohibits definition of the VMA at the 
unknown (to the redboot) address.

Regards,
--
Artur Lipowski


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