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From: Grant Likely <glikely@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:45:39 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Differences between u-boot and u-boot.bin
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On 4/25/05, Yann POUPET <yann@yannouch.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could someone explain me the difference between the u-boot elf binary
> and u-boot.bin files both generated when I build u-boot ?
u-boot:  elf file, includes both machine code and symbol tables
(function names, etc)
u-boot.bin: raw machine code in binary image.
u-boot.srec: raw machine code in srecord format.

> 
> I which context/condition should I use one or the other ?
u-boot: Use with symbolic debugger (gdb)
u-boot.bin: flash verbatim into ROM
u-boot.srec: flash into ROM using srec loader