how to test my rtems application program?

[Joel Sherrill]

Till Straumann wrote:
> I have used grub and etherboot to boot i386-rtems
> applications. With both of them I used the ELF file,
> not the one generated by bin2boot.
>
Now that you say that, I have done the same thing also.

--joel
> YMMV
> -- Till
>
> Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> alwyn lee wrote:
>>  
>>> hi,
>>> I have a problem that  when I finish building the rtems system, I 
>>> use it to make a user program such as the examples rtems supplied. 
>>> my target bsp use pc386.
>>>
>>>
>>> I use the pc386 grub image from the rtems.com , but i find that the 
>>> program format is netbsd-a.out ,my program format is multiboot-elf. 
>>> is it the reason that my program can not run in that grub ?
>>>
>>> and how to test my program , or is there a simulator to test my 
>>> program for pc386?
>>> I'm so confused about the problem.
>>>
>>>     
>> The pc386 BSP make procedure does some magic transformations on the
>> ELF file produced by directly linking.  If you want the commands used
>> when producing the RTEMS samples you will see some steps involving
>> an objcopy and a bin2boot.  You have to do those steps on your program.
>>
>> You will have to provide more details to know what you are doing wrong.
>> But the pc386 BSP does require some extra streps to get from linked
>> ELF to bootable image.
>> --joel
>>  
>>> who can help me? thanks a lot !
>>>
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