RE: [avrdude-dev] [task #5093] Add support for reading ELF files.

[Eric Weddington]

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> rg] On Behalf Of Dave N6NZ
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] [task #5093] Add support for 
> reading ELF files.
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> As long as we are talking about tweaking linker scripts...
> 
> (dodges incoming missiles...)

But next time please start a new thread, and in the right mailing list. This
issue is more for the avr-gcc-list mailing list.
 
> The subject of using bootloader routines in application code comes up 
> fairly frequently, and in fact I've been thinking about how 
> to do that 
> for my own projects.  There are several ways to go about this.  The 
> solutions that seem to me to be the cleanest involve slight tweaks to 
> the linkage methodology.
> 
> Here is one proposal:
> 1) Build bootloader and application separately.
<snip> 
> Anyway, that is one idea. Thoughts?

You're right, that is one idea. Other people have also built the application
and bootloader together. There is no one right way of doing this.

Eric