[U-Boot-Users] ELF image for U-Boot

[U-Boot-Users] ELF image for U-Boot

[Devraj Mukherjee]

Hi everyone,

I managed to get U-Boot compiled for a LPD7A400, thanks to the patches 
that I got out of the list serve. Once compiled I got u-boot.bin, u-boot 
and u-boot.srec. I also got u-boot.map and System.map

I read around a bit and it seems to me that u-boot is the elf image for 
u-boot. When I load it on as an elf, our board does not want to accept 
it. I was just wondering if I have to combine System.map in anyway with 
the binary images to make a proper elf image?

Any leads are welcome. Thanks

Devraj


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Devraj Mukherjee, Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. Australia
Host: Debian (Sarge) 3.1 Kernel 2.4.27-1-686 / GCC version 3.3.5
Target: LPD7A400 (ARM9) LogicPD eval. board / ARM GCC 3.3 GlibC 2.3.2
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[U-Boot-Users] ELF image for U-Boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <41858367.7050000@eternitytechnologies.com> you wrote:
> 
> I read around a bit and it seems to me that u-boot is the elf image for 

This is correct.

> u-boot. When I load it on as an elf, our board does not want to accept 
> it. I was just wondering if I have to combine System.map in anyway with 
> the binary images to make a proper elf image?

Thoie "board does not want to accept it"? This is wrong. The board is
just hardware, and it does not want anything. I guess you  mean  that
there  is already another boot loader installed and running, and that
this boot  loader  does  not  load  the  U-Boot  ELF  file?  If  this
assumption  is  correct,  than  I  am not surprised. U-Boot cannot be
loaded dynamically. You must install it in flash memory,  overwriting
the existing boot loader.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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