[U-Boot] [ARM]: File type for u-boot elf file

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>]

Le 24/02/2011 12:08, sughosh ganu a ?crit :
> hi Albert,
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr
> <mailto:albert.aribaud@free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Sughosh,
>
>     Le 24/02/2011 11:01, sughosh ganu a ?crit :
>
>         Can you please tell me what could have caused this change. I
>         compiled
>         u-boot for a powerpc board, and found that the file type in that
>         case is
>         'ELF Executable'. Is there any specific reason why the file type has
>         changed for ARM, as powerpc also supports relocation.
>
>
>     You have already answered your own question: the move to relocatable
>     executable caused the change you see.
>
>
> Yes, this is true, what i wanted to understand was the reason why the
> 'Type'  field is different for ARM now, compared to the u-boot elf image
> for powerpc. Not sure if i am missing something, but powerpc also
> supports relocation, so  what is the reason for the difference in the
> two image types. Prior to relocation, we used to get the file type as
> 'Executable', same as powerpc.

PPC and ARM have different architectures, different toolchains, 
different methods for relocation -- that explains the different ELF type.

>     I suspect the utility freaks out because it thinks the ELF cannot be
>     made into a binary like it would previously, but actually the binary
>     generation process did not change when we refactored the relocation
>     -- maybe the utility would work on our relocatable ELFs with just
>     the check for ELF type bypassed.
>
> Yes, even i think that would be the case, but i guess that would call
> for changes in the utility. Perhaps someone from TI can look into this.

Isn't there some official support channel?

> -sughosh

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.