Le 02/11/2010 09:53, V, Aneesh a écrit :
My .rel.dyn was not empty even before taking your fix.
This is what puzzled me. When I dumped the ELF headers with 'objdump -h' ..rel.dyn seemed to have some content: Please see the diff of objdump's output before and after applying your patch.
Please note that .rel.dyn was there even without the patch having the same size but at a different offset.
So, this is what it looks like to me: Even when our rule in .lds was not correct the linker generated ..rel.dyn section by default putting together the 'rel*' sections that were not covered by any rules. But since it didn't use our rule for this, the labels associated with our rule indicated zero size.
Correct: the linker dumped the ununsed .rel* input sections so you can see them, but they were outside of _rel_dyn_start / _rel_dyn_end, so for all useful purposes, we can say that .rel.dyn was empty. What was not empty was some other place in the binary that was not .rel.dyn as such.
We did not face the second issue because we are loading the entire u-boot.bin using a separate preloader.
Ok.
Best regards, Aneesh
Amicalement,