From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:18:59 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [ARM]: File type for u-boot elf file In-Reply-To: References: <4D66399C.9010201@free.fr> <4D6640E6.5050901@free.fr> Message-ID: <4D6757E3.1000603@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Le 24/02/2011 14:26, Detlev Zundel a ?crit : > Hi sughosh, > >> hi Albert, >> >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Albert ARIBAUDwrote: >> >>> Le 24/02/2011 12:08, sughosh ganu a ?crit : >>> >>> 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? >>> >> >> I am not sure on this one. Hawkboard was a open source project, so hoping >> someone from TI on the list can take a look into this. >> >> Sandeep, if you can point me to the person/list where this can be taken up, >> i can follow up. Thanks. > > We should really strive to get the functionality of the utility into > U-Boot itself. Our mkimage already supports "custom wrappers" for i.MX > and Kirkwood (cf. tools/{imximage,kwbimage}.c), so why not extend it for > the AIS stuff? From the general search I did while responding in this thread, AIS is not documented publically -- but I may have missed it. > Dependencies on external utilities is always a bad thing and breaks > easily as was just demonstrated. Agreed -- although actually, its the dependency on *binary, closed* external utilities that causes the issue. > Cheers > Detlev Amicalement, -- Albert.