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From: cov@codeaurora.org (Christopher Covington)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:33:43 -0400
Subject: Change of TEXT_OFFSET for multi_v7_defconfig
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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?

Thanks,
Christopher

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