From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Covington Subject: Re: Change of TEXT_OFFSET for multi_v7_defconfig Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:33:43 -0400 Message-ID: <53501E87.6070307@codeaurora.org> References: <534D0D91.8020406@linaro.org> <534EAD6C.3040502@codeaurora.org> <534EF153.5050603@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.11.231]:58260 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751178AbaDQSdq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:33:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre Cc: Daniel Thompson , Peter Maydell , Peter Crosthwaite , Joel Fernandes , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd , QEMU Developers , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org 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 -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation.