Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Inconsitency between image.srec and image.bin

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Cor,

Cor Venner wrote:
> Hi there,I have discovered a inconsistency between the image.srec file 
> and the image.bin file.
> The romfs section is located at __init_end in image.srec while it is 
> located at __bss_start in image.srec. I will explain:
>
> The image.bin file is created by a "cat" of linux.bin and romfs.img (see 
> detail 1 below). This causes romfs to start were linux ends, which is at 
> __init_end. Image.srec is derived from image.elf. Image.elf is updated 
> with "microblaze-uclinux-objcopy", which adds a section .romfs to 
> "linux". See detail 2. For this the .bss location is extracted from 
> "linux". See detail 3. The difference between the two is the unused 
> space up to the next page boundary as can be seen in the System.map file:
>
> 2015d086 ? __initramfs_end
> 2015d08c A __init_end
> 2015e000 B __bss_start
> 2015e000 B saved_command_line
> 2015e100 B reset_devices
>
> The length of the binary "linux.bin" is 0x2015d08c, which equals __init_end

[snip]

Thanks for your efforts tracking this down and clear explanation of the 
problem.  We'll look into a fix for the next release, and post a patch 
before then.

Thanks,

John
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