Alex Schuilenburg writes:
Andrew Lunn wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 05:29:53PM +0000, Samie Hassan Ghauri wrote:
Thanks for your advise on how to access a file by including a romfs
image in my code.
I was just wondering could you suggest any idea on how can I write any
file to my host OS (i.e Win XP)?
Its not realy your host OS. Its just another OS that can run on the
same machine at some other time. You don't run eCos on top of M$ XP
unlike the synthetic target which does run as a process on Linux.
There is currently no way to do what you want.
Actually there is.
There was a project to produce semi-hosted libraries (e.g. fileio
operations were performed on the host rather than the embedded target)
which included changes+extentions to gdb, as well as target run-time
libraries. This was obviously not specific to eCos, nor was any work
done in eCos to support these gdb extensions, but if these extensions
were completed and released as part of gdb, I suspect an ecos semi-hosted
library would be feasible.
However, I don't know if this project was ever finished or released
publically. Maybe one of the project members would care to comment?
The project was finished and the code to support it is in gdb,
RedBoot (CYGPKG_HAL_GDB_FILEIO), and newlib. It should be fairly
easy to add the support to the eCos libc. It uses the GDB remote
protocol to transport the fileio operations between the target
board and a host.