Re: [Qemu-devel] Change of TEXT_OFFSET for multi_v7_defconfig

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, Christopher Covington wrote:

> On 04/16/2014 07:21 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Christopher Covington wrote:
> 
> >> Thank you for the suggestion. This approach also came to mind, but it would
> >> require new documentation and tooling in the JTAG scripts or simulator
> >> equivalent. That's another aspect of the ELF-based approaches that I
> >> like--hopefully existing documentation and tool support could be reused.
> > 
> > The above is useful for loading the raw uncompressed Image without 
> > carrying the full ELF baggage.
> 
> What exactly is the full ELF baggage? Aren't there existing mechanisms to omit
> debugging symbols, for example, if size is of concern?

Most existing bootloaders don't have the ability to parse ELF files.  
This is therefore not the typical kernel image format.  The uncompressed 
kernel image is not very typical either, but like zImage it doesn't rely 
on any parser in the bootloader.


Nicolas