[ECOS] need info about ARM7 built sections

Jonathan Larmour jlarmour@redhat.com
Fri Feb 1 08:09:00 GMT 2002


Joris Roussel wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> On ARM7 target, different sections are built but I can't find in any eCos
> document to what they correspond.

Many of them are primarily a property of ELF. Look at the standards for
that. The few non-ELF sections are fairly self-explanatory (rom_vectors
etc.).

> QUESTION :
> 
> Which sections can I put in a read-only device and which ones must be
> mapped in RAM ?

use objdump -h and you can see which ones have the LOAD attribute.
 
> What is the use of each one (or where can I find such info) ?

Sorry, something like that would take too long for a non-customer. Maybe
some non-Red Hat person will oblige.

Jifl
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