On 04/13/2011 09:07 AM, philby john wrote:
From: Philby John<pjohn@xxxxxxxxxx>
^^^^^^^^ I believe that statement to be not entirely correct. Perhaps you should change it to something like: From: David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:46:32 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Octeon: add option to ignore PT_NOTE section Some early Octeon bootloaders cannot process PT_NOTE program headers as reported in numerous sections of the web, here is an example http://www.spinics.net/lists/mips/msg37799.html Loading usually fails with such an error ... Error allocating memory for elf image! The work around usually is to strip the .notes section by using such a command $mips-gnu-strip -R .notes vmlinux -o fixed-vmlinux It is expected that the vmlinux image got after compilation be bootable. Add a Kconfig option to ignore the PT_NOTE section. Signed-off-by: Philby John<pjohn@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
