On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:13:53 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 17:11 -0500, Scott Wood wrote: > > > I would have expected uboot to warn (the kernel ELF header contains > > the > > > BSS size) but apparently that isn't the case. > > > > U-Boot doesn't use ELF files with Linux, so it has no idea where the > > BSS is. uImage is just a wrapper around a flat binary. > > Oh, right, I forgot about that... -1 for uboot there. Seriously, it's > time it grows the ability to load ELF or to at least stick an ELF in a > uImage... It actually can load an ELF file, but it doesn't currently support passing a device tree to it (only argc/argv text arguments, or some vxworks stuff). > I've never understood the reasoning for that uImage wrapper > thingy. Definitely causes more problems than it solves in my experience. Wolfgang was just defending it on the U-Boot list the past couple days... seems like the main thing in its favor is the CRC, especially as a final check before reflashing an image. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
