Ajay Jain wrote: > 1. What are the differences between ELF & Binary file formats? [I know > some, but I want to know all.] Probably ``binary'' in your context means ``memory image'', i.e. the same that ``objcopy -O binary'' produces. > 2. Why do we need a loader for ELF and not for Binary.. ? One would need a loader for everything, which needs to be loaded. In the case of ``binary'' files (memory images), the loaders is just very simple - basically write the file content to a prescribed address. ~velco -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
