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Re: standalone application run on RAM or ROM


On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 04:37:31PM +0800, peter_ku wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I build the application with ROM mode, and put it into flash.
> After it execute, will it copy itself to RAM , and run from RAM?   or run from ROM directly?   should I enable some option in the ecos-configuration tool?
> 
> How about Red boot? Do redboot copy itself to RAM?
> 
> Thanks a lot.

RAM applications run in RAM
ROM application run in ROM
ROMRAM application live in ROM, but copy themselves into RAM before running.

Redboot is just a normal application. It does nothing special.

Not all HALs support ROMRAM.

    Andrew

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