From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John W. Linville Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:12:07 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] booting elf images where VMA != LMA In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.0.20050325092912.01df7240@ptg1.spd.analog.com> References: <6.1.1.1.0.20050325092912.01df7240@ptg1.spd.analog.com> Message-ID: <20050325221205.GA25070@tuxdriver.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:53:55AM -0500, Robin Getz wrote: > The elf standard (& the gnu linker) supports two types of memory addresses: > Question is: > - Do I patch the standard elf relocation code to always load things at > the LMA? This certainly seems like the correct thing to me. What are the potential disadvantages of this approach? Are there any? John -- John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com