On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, John Van Horne wrote: > [jvhorne@guava-lx linux]$ make orionboot > make -C arch/mips/orion orionboot > make[1]: Entering directory > `/dvlp/jvhorne/jvh_21_lx_mips_cross_test_sv/vobs/gpl/linux/arch/mips/orion' > mips-linux-objcopy -Obinary --verbose ../../../vmlinux orion.nosym > copy from ../../../vmlinux(elf32-bigmips) to orion.nosym(binary) > BFD: Warning: Writing section `.app_header' to huge (ie negative) file > offset 0x800fec30. > BFD: Warning: Writing section `.text' to huge (ie negative) file offset > 0x80100c30. > BFD: Warning: Writing section `.fixup' to huge (ie negative) file offset > 0x80236930. > BFD: Warning: Writing section `.text.exit' to huge (ie negative) file offset > 0x80237830. > . > . > . > mips-linux-objcopy: orion.nosym: File truncated > > > Do you think that the reason objcopy fails is because it isn't treating > the addresses as 32 bit addresses, or could it be something else? Note that the binary BFD target fills all "holes" with zeroes. I suspect one or more sections are placed at an offset lower than 0x80000000. Objcopy would have to make a huge file in this case and it gives up. You probably need to fix your linker script. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
