Hi Ralf,
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 ralf@linux-mips.org wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:01:24AM -0400, ik@cyberspace.org wrote:
>
> > My board has a boot loader (rom) that enforce/restricts the sections in
> > the elf header, hence I cannot use the default linker script that comes
> > wit the kernel(arch/mips/).
>
> Are you sure the loader actually looks at the sections? That seems plain
> wrong. Normally a loader should only look at all the PT_LOAD entries in
> the ELF program header table for loading.
I use the device available in my company (which is proprietary),
I know my point here would be abstract for u...sorry abt that !
Thanks for the reply !
Indu
>
> > I think your reply could be put as a howto/faqs in
> > http://www.linux-mips.org (for the global symbols
> > used in linux kernel).
>
> So many things that deserve some well written documentation - yet so little
> exists ...
>
> Ralf
>
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