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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: naveen yadav <yad.naveen@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Himanshu Aggarwal <lkml.himanshu@gmail.com>,
	kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: page size change on MIPS
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:25:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4C3676.50802@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimCfioamQWGeRCFFN=OoWE7-PhGs2tCH+_9H=HO@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/03/2011 08:16 PM, naveen yadav wrote:
> Hi, I am adding readelf info also .
>
> mips-linux-gnu-readelf -S squashfs-root/bin/busybox
> There are 35 section headers, starting at offset 0x174290:
>

Section headers are not relevant to any of this.  You need to look at 
the program headers.  Try 'readelf -l'

David Daney


[...]
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Ralf Baechle<ralf@linux-mips.org>  wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:32:43PM +0530, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why should the application or the toolchains depend on pagesize? I am
>>>> not very clear on this. Can someone explain it?
>>>
>>> To allow loading directly with mmap the executable file's layout must
>>> be such that it's it's segments are on offsets that are a multiple of
>>> the page size so in turn the linker must know that alignment.
>>>
>>>   Ralf
>>>
>>
>

      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-24 15:02 page size change on MIPS naveen yadav
2011-01-24 18:56 ` David Daney
2011-01-24 19:13   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2011-01-27 14:55   ` naveen yadav
2011-01-27 15:18     ` adnan iqbal
2011-01-27 17:44       ` David Daney
2011-01-28  9:18         ` naveen yadav
2011-01-28 18:48           ` David Daney
2011-01-30 15:02   ` Himanshu Aggarwal
2011-01-31 13:08     ` Ralf Baechle
2011-02-04  3:24       ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04  4:16         ` naveen yadav
2011-02-04 17:25           ` David Daney [this message]

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