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21 years ago

eCos from epcs

Hi all Does anybody know if eCos supports botting up from epcs instead of the on board flash device on ALtera's developement board (the 1c20 board) ? Looking at the templates tab under the ...
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21 years ago

I've had a quick look at this, and I've found that a simple work around is to just add the __reset symbol to your elf file yourself. You can do this by adding the following to the linker options:

-Wl,--defsym,__reset=0x2100000

where 0x2100000 is the base address of your epcs device.

Linker flags are set under "Global build options" in configtool.

Having done that, the program_flash script will work as expected.