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21 years ago

boot from onchip rom

Hi, If i want to use onchip rom as a boot area, i need to extract boot loader code from elf file and convert into hex for on-chip rom which will be included in sof file. But , i don&...
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20 years ago

Hi samchou,

> i need to extract boot loader code from elf file and convert into hex

Try some combination of objcopy, elf2hex, etc. (as suits your taste) from the command

line ... you may find it is much easier to understand ... since you can avoid the "magic"

of the IDE. For example:

$ nios2-elf-objcopy -O ihex app.elf onchip_rom.hex

Regards,

--Scott