From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/7] Re-organize linker layouts
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:22:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110706102245.GO8286@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
The following series of patches are targetted at two issues:
1. Fixing large initramfs causing PC24 relocations to become out of
range. This fixes both modules and link-time errors.
2. Making the vmlinux easier to pinpoint the various section-built
data structures and inspect them later.
For the main kernel, this allows the size of various sections to be
determined via objdump -h. This also aids objdump -d and -s usage
when asking it to target a particular section.
For the decompressor, it means that it is now trivially possible to copy
out the compressed kernel vmlinux image by:
arm-linux-objcopy -O binary -j .piggydata arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux \
piggy.gz
and thereby obtain the binary kernel image (the Image file) which was
originally used.
next reply other threads:[~2011-07-06 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 10:22 Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-07-06 10:23 ` [PATCH 1/7] ARM: ensure tag tables are const Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 10:23 ` [PATCH 2/7] ARM: decompressor: use better output sections Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 10:23 ` [PATCH 3/7] ARM: vmlinux.lds: move discarded sections to beginning Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 10:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] ARM: vmlinux.lds: rearrange .init output section Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 10:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] ARM: vmlinux.lds: remove .rodata/.rodata1 from main .text segment Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 10:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] ARM: vmlinux.lds: move init sections between text and data sections Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 10:25 ` [PATCH 7/7] ARM: vmlinux.lds: use _text and _stext the same way as x86 Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-06 15:09 ` [PATCH 0/7] Re-organize linker layouts Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-07 17:28 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-07-07 22:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-08 0:55 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-07-08 9:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-08 13:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-08 16:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-07-08 16:56 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-07-08 18:24 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-11 20:17 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-07-11 22:14 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-19 17:22 ` David Brown
2011-07-19 18:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-07-19 20:42 ` David Brown
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