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From: Alex Zeffertt <ajz@cambridgebroadband.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:40:27 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] booting elf image?
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Ram wrote:
> i,
>    i am using omap 5912osk. (ARM architecture).
> 
>   I have a C program:
>    int  main ( )
>   {
>           printf ("Hello World\n") ;
> 
>    }
> 
> im compiling the c program with static linking.
> 
> [sriram at sriram sriram]# file a.out
> a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (ARM), for GNU/Linux 
> 2.4.3, statically linked, not stripped
> 
> 
> I download the elf executable using tftpboot onto my target . when i do 
> bootelf   u-boot
> hangs?
> 
> Am i missing something?
> 

Yes.  You need an operating system to run a.out.  I recommend Linux.