Re: page size change on MIPS

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 02/03/2011 08:16 PM, naveen yadav wrote:
> Hi, I am adding readelf info also .
>
> mips-linux-gnu-readelf -S squashfs-root/bin/busybox
> There are 35 section headers, starting at offset 0x174290:
Section headers are not relevant to any of this.  You need to look at 
the program headers.  Try 'readelf -l'
David Daney


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> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Ralf Baechle<ralf@linux-mips.org>  wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:32:43PM +0530, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why should the application or the toolchains depend on pagesize? I am
> > > > not very clear on this. Can someone explain it?
> > > To allow loading directly with mmap the executable file's layout must
> > > be such that it's it's segments are on offsets that are a multiple of
> > > the page size so in turn the linker must know that alignment.
> > >
> > >   Ralf