Re: page size change on MIPS

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On 02/03/2011 08:16 PM, naveen yadav wrote:
> Hi, I am adding readelf info also .
>
> mips-linux-gnu-readelf -S squashfs-root/bin/busybox
> There are 35 section headers, starting at offset 0x174290:
>

Section headers are not relevant to any of this.  You need to look at 
the program headers.  Try 'readelf -l'

David Daney


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>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Ralf Baechle<ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 08:32:43PM +0530, Himanshu Aggarwal wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why should the application or the toolchains depend on pagesize? I am
>>>> not very clear on this. Can someone explain it?
>>>
>>> To allow loading directly with mmap the executable file's layout must
>>> be such that it's it's segments are on offsets that are a multiple of
>>> the page size so in turn the linker must know that alignment.
>>>
>>>   Ralf
>>>
>>
>


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