[PATCH 0/7] Re-organize linker layouts
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jul 6 06:22:45 EDT 2011
The following series of patches are targetted at two issues:
1. Fixing large initramfs causing PC24 relocations to become out of
range. This fixes both modules and link-time errors.
2. Making the vmlinux easier to pinpoint the various section-built
data structures and inspect them later.
For the main kernel, this allows the size of various sections to be
determined via objdump -h. This also aids objdump -d and -s usage
when asking it to target a particular section.
For the decompressor, it means that it is now trivially possible to copy
out the compressed kernel vmlinux image by:
arm-linux-objcopy -O binary -j .piggydata arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux \
piggy.gz
and thereby obtain the binary kernel image (the Image file) which was
originally used.
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