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16 years ago

Problem generating Hex files for on chip memories.

I have two on chip memories for my Nios system. ("instruction_rom" and "data_ram", both are actually RAM's) I am having problems with .hex files generated for these internal memories. The I...
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16 years ago

Use objcopy to copy extract the data from each segment.

Something like: nios2-elf-objcopy.exe -O hex -j .text prog.elf prog_text.hex

You probably need to use 'objdump -h' to sort out which elf sections exist in the input file, and may need to get the linker to generate a map file in order to find out what ends up where (and why).