On 17 Jul 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote:

> Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > OK, the problem is that the new mkelfImage is putting things where
> > linuxbios is, and the legacy linuxbios in many of our cards can't take
> > that.
>
> How do you switch ELF images without switching LinuxBIOS?
> The only case I can think of (etherboot) should not be a problem.

I'm not sure I get the point.

linuxbios on this particular board is loading etherboot from FLASH.
Etherboot is then
loading the elfImage generated by the latest mkelfImage. Two interesting
things:
- images generated by the new mkelfImage are not comprehensible to objdump
  (but old ones are, I'm still trying to get to this)
- the new images have load address ca. 0x15000 etc. which seems to blow
  etherboot out of the sky. the old images have high-memory load
  addresses.

> I hadn't realized I had changed the locations noticeably.  Unless this
> is one of those cases where you always used a local hack, that I never
> adopted.

if only that were the case :-)

Anyway I'll get back to you asap as soon as I have better info. Sometimes
I describe the problem and you get me a patch in a few seconds :-)

ron

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