[ECOS] Simple Redboot Q's

[Matt Sartori]

Exec seems quite closely tied to linux (eg. When I enable the
CYGBLD_BUILD_REDBOOT_WITH_EXEC it actually fails with some error in
redboot_linux_exec.c). Can I run anything with Redboot using exec or is
it looking for some kind of linux kernel image etc. ? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch] 
Sent: 26 July 2005 12:05
To: Matt Sartori
Cc: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Simple Redboot Q's


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:16:15AM +0100, Matt Sartori wrote:
> Does an application that is loaded and run by Redboot have to be 
> linked against the eCos libraries?

No. eg your application could be Linux, which will simply take complete
control of the hardware.

> What provisions would be necessary to make this work (e.g.. you 
> obviously don't want your app to overwrite the rom area Redboot sits 
> in) and are there any examples of this out there?

Look at how Linux is booted using RedBoot.

        Andrew

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