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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Hi ,<BR><BR>I am working on SH4
architecture. I observed one strange thing. Each time i build my kernel image
(uImage) the last 10% of the uImage content is changing. I compared uImages
using diff command and with Beyond Compare tool, which i did using binary as
well as rule based comparison with time stamp comparison disabled. I observed
that every time when i build the kernel image the lower 10% of the uImage differ
from the previously build uImage (build with in 20 min before the last one). Can
any one help me to know the reason behind this behavior? I want to know more
about the format of uImage and what exactly the lower 10% contains? i searched
in various sites and referred the documentation of U-boot. But i dint get the
reason for this behavior. I did the same comparison with vmlinux and vmlinux.bin
and i observed that each time i build these vmlinux and vimlinux.bin they differ
from the previous images (which i build 20 min before the last one ) by a max of
10 lines.<BR>When i opened two vimlinux images (which i build with in a time gap
of 20 min)using the readelf command. I observed that the last byte of some of
the address are different in the two vmlinux images. why it is so?<BR>Please
help me to understand this.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>S<SPAN
class=572381808-16102008>anthosh</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV align=left><STRONG>Santhosh Unnikrishnan</STRONG></DIV>
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