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Re: redboot elf loader

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:00, Mark Salter wrote:
> >>>>> Gary Thomas writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Actually, we copy LMA to VMA. That is, for ROM startup the .data section
> has a VMA in RAM and an LMA in ROM. I tend to believe that the ELF loader
> should indeed be using LMA addresses.
> 

How could this work for this example - loading via LMA into memory
that RedBoot clearly needs while running?

-- 
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates


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