[ECOS]Bootable applications

[Trenton D. Adams]

I'm sure most of the Maintainers will say "We know, you want to re-write
them for us? :)"

I think I read that comment from Jonathan at one point! ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
[ mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com ] On Behalf Of survey liu
Sent: August 14, 2001 7:18 PM
To: Jonathan Larmour
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS]Bootable applications


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
+86-755-6635333 ext 4300
----- 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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