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        Understanding Windows CE's memory layout

        Doug | Date: Sep 15, 2006 | Comments: 1



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        While application developers can usually ignore issues of memory mapping in Windows CE, engineers writing board support packages (BSPs) need to understand how Windows CE's memory is mapped, and the tools that make that happen. This article by a developer on Microsoft's Windows CE Embedded BSP team sheds light on this topic.




        The three principal tools that manage memory mapping, according to author Travis Hobrla, are the OEMAddressTable and the files config.bib and boot.bib (.bib stands for "binary image builder"). The OEMAddressTable specifies mappings between virtual address space and physical address space, while the two .bib files contain configuration information about the Windows CE OS image and the bootloader, espectively.

        After explaining the format of these elements, the article concludes with a simple example of a CEPC BSP.

        Read the complete technical article here:

        Understanding memory sections and the OEMAddressTable in Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0




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