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15 years ago

Modifying EPCS bootloader

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15 years ago

The nios code won't be position independant - that is only done for shared libraries.

However it could well be there to force the physical address be different from the logical address - this will affect the elf program headers.

Typically the physical and logical addresses are different when the code will be copied after being loaded, or when the memory maps seen by the cpu and loader are different.