In the end I've customised a little the solution proposed by
JM Gross in one of the posts above. Thank you all for your help!
If anyone is interested I will post the details tomorrow when
I get to the office.
Regards,
Alex
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Von: Alex Stefan
Gesendet am: 09 Aug 2011 07:57:19
JMGross grossibaer.de> writes:
>> My own approach for this was as follows (note that my 'bootloader' is only a
>> 'boot copier'.
>> The new firmware has been received by the old firmware and stored (wit
Eric Decker gmail.com> writes:
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Alex Stefan
> cloudbit.ro>wrote:
>
> >
> > As I said, seems like a very good idea, but there's one thing I don't
> > understand. Why do you need the 'indirect jumping zone'. Why wouldn't it be
> > possible to program the vecto
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Alex Stefan
wrote:
>
> As I said, seems like a very good idea, but there's one thing I don't
> understand. Why do you need the 'indirect jumping zone'. Why wouldn't it be
> possible to program the vector in bootvect to jump directly to the
> interrupt
> vector tabl
JMGross grossibaer.de> writes:
>
> You should do it exactly the other way: put the bootloader to the end of 64k
> region
> and move everything else down.
> The main reason is that each program has its own interrupt vector table.
> Including its own reset vector.
> But your bootloader needs to
sts.sourceforge.net
Gesendet am: 06 Aug 2011 00:09:16
Betreff: [Mspgcc-users] Custom linker file
Hello,
I am working on a custom bootloader. For the time being I am trying to the main
code to a higher address and create a custom section to hold the bootloader
code.
After reading further I concluded
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Alex Stefan
wrote:
> After reading further I concluded that what I need is a separate section, not
> defining a memory region. But, from there on, everything gets foggy so I would
> need a little help to point me in the right direction: writing a custom linker
> fil
David W. Schultz earthlink.net> writes:
>
> I plan on adding a bootloader to my current project but haven't quite
> reached that stage yet. But I have given it some thought and I think my
> plan is a bit different from yours.
>
> My plan is to link two stand alone programs. I have to do this
> e
On 08/05/2011 05:09 PM, Alex Stefan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a custom bootloader. For the time being I am trying to the
> main
> code to a higher address and create a custom section to hold the bootloader
> code.
I plan on adding a bootloader to my current project but haven't quite
Hello,
I am working on a custom bootloader. For the time being I am trying to the main
code to a higher address and create a custom section to hold the bootloader
code.
After modifying the memory.x file in lib/ldscripts/ I have created a new region
called "bootldr" and moved the "rom" up by 8
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