Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Octeon: add option to ignore PT_NOTE section

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 04/13/2011 09:07 AM, philby john wrote:
> From: Philby John<pjohn@mvista.com>

^^^^^^^^ I believe that statement to be not entirely correct.

Perhaps you should change it to something like:
From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>


> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:46:32 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Octeon: add option to ignore PT_NOTE section
>
> Some early Octeon bootloaders cannot process PT_NOTE program
> headers as reported in numerous sections of the web, here is
> an example http://www.spinics.net/lists/mips/msg37799.html
> Loading usually fails with such an error ...
> Error allocating memory for elf image!
>
> The work around usually is to strip the .notes section by using
> such a command $mips-gnu-strip -R .notes vmlinux -o fixed-vmlinux
> It is expected that the vmlinux image got after compilation be
> bootable. Add a Kconfig option to ignore the PT_NOTE section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philby John<pjohn@mvista.com>
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