From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tore Martin Hagen Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:31:48 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BB=D8=B8=B4=3A_About_the_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?u-boot_=28in_ELF_binary_format=29?= In-Reply-To: References: <20060109115356.ACD3A352B1E@atlas.denx.de> Message-ID: <43C362E4.3030007@slb.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi ??? The ELF file is used by HW-debuggers, since it contains symbol information. /Tore Martin Hagen ??? wrote: >Hi, > As you said, one must download the .bin file to flash and not the >ELF file, and U-Boot is a boot loader and not an application programm >which can be >run under Linux. then, what is the u-boot(in ELF binary format) for ? > I red the book"Building Embeded Linux systems " written by Karim >Yaghmour,in section 9.5 it described like this: > If you intend to debug U-Boot itself ,copy the ELF binary also: > $ u-boot ${PROJECT}/images/u-boot-0.2.0 > Here ${PROJECT}/images is a directory to which u make a copy of the >relevant bootloader images. so, i guess the ELF file may be downloaded >to target to debug u-boot. Is it so and how does the file work? > Thank you in advance! > > >2006/1/9, Wolfgang Denk : > > >>In message you wrote: >> >> >>> I have successfully compiled u-boot and ,as you know, there are >>>several object files produced after"make all", one of which is >>>u-boot(in ELF binary format) . Now, i run the u-boot(in ELF binary >>>format) in target board (Embedded Planet EP405)with Linux kernel and >>>NFS file system. >>> # ./u-boot >>> then appears the error echo: >>> Segmentation fault >>> will you please tell me what's the problem and how to solve it? >>> >>> >>U-Boot is a boot loader and not an application programm which can be >>run under Linux. >> >>Best regards, >> >>Wolfgang Denk >> >>-- >>Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux >>Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de >>Every little picofarad has a nanohenry all its own. - Don Vonada >> >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&opclick >_______________________________________________ >U-Boot-Users mailing list >U-Boot-Users at lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/attachments/20060110/cfdf41d9/attachment.htm