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14 years ago

Modifying EPCS bootloader

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14 years ago

The compiler output files (*.o) are relocatable, the linking stage will assign fixed addresses (virtual addresses) at which the code is expected to run. The linker output for a program (do 'objdump -p' to get the program headers) can be copied into memory (at the correct address) and then run without any further fixups).

So for the EPCS boot code, it will be the address the the nios cpu accesses the boot rom.