[RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Feb 24 04:52:51 EST 2007


>> If this is an ELF file, you can put the exception vectors in a
>> separate segment.  Or if you don't need the entry point to
>> be in the low region, (and you don't need that unless your
>> boot loader ignores the entry point in the ELF header), you can
>> copy the vectors in at startup and have no code linked at 0 at
>> all.
>
> No you cant. When flashed in ROM, the HV expands the bootloader binary
> at 0 and jumps to 0x100

Yeah, I said "if this is an ELF file", and that's not the
case unfortunately.


Segher




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