Re: Stripped binary insertion with the GNU Linker suggestions (fwd)

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Friday, Jul 11, 2003, at 11:00 US/Central, Jon Masters wrote:
>
> The reason I want it is that I am creating a single elf output file 
> which
> is loaded in to SDRAM by a SystemACE chip and in order for that to work
> correctly I need to give the appropriate tools a single elf input
> containing everything where I want it to be loaded in memory.

Not sure I understand the problem exactly, but I believe ppc32 kernels 
do exactly what you want. Have a look at arch/ppc/boot/ld.script and 
see __{image,ramdisk,sysmap}_begin . Also see how e.g. 
arch/ppc/boot/prep/Makefile uses objcopy 
--add-section=.image=vmlinux.gz .

The end result is taking an arbitrary file and stuffing it into an ELF 
section, then using a linker script to provide the start and end 
addresses of the file data.

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center