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21 years ago

about the memory management in NiosII

I have a problem about memory management problem for the processor without MMU. It is easy to know the mechanism when binary code running on the processor directly without OS. All the addresses are p...
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21 years ago

The executable on uClinux is using a flat binary format (bFLT). It is built with starting address of 0, but holds relocation information. When you run it under uClinux, the bFLT loader will fulfill the relocations according to the loaded address.

For information on bFLT format, please refer to bflt format (http://www.beyondlogic.org/uclinux/bflt.pdf)

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wentao