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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:52:51 +0100
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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>> 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