From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: linux-2.5.42uc1 (MMU-less support)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:48:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016154842.A13211@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAD7AA9.1060207@snapgear.com>; from gerg@snapgear.com on Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:41:45AM +1000
> This isn't old. It is the primary format used on uClinux. ELF
> and a.out are not practical, since you would need to do the final
> link/locate on them at exec load time (you won't know what address
> in memory they will get loaded to until them). You don have the
> VM luxary of just locating it at a fixed address at compile time.
>
> FLAT format is a light weight, mostly architecture independant
> way to carry around relocs, and to keep the program binaries
> small.
I don't meant binfmt_flat itself but the support for the old-style relocs
that is still in the code.
BTW, does binfmt_flat for for any non-uClinux port?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-16 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-15 15:25 Greg Ungerer
2002-10-15 17:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-16 14:41 ` Greg Ungerer
2002-10-16 14:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-10-16 15:36 ` Greg Ungerer
2002-11-26 7:46 ` [PATCH] Make some EXPORT_SYMBOLs dependent on CONFIG_MMU Miles Bader
2002-11-26 7:49 ` [PATCH] v850 additions to include/linux/elf.h Miles Bader
2002-11-26 15:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-27 1:19 ` Miles Bader
2002-11-27 13:01 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-28 1:20 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-16 5:42 ` [PATCH]: linux-2.5.42uc1 (MMU-less support) Miles Bader
2002-10-16 12:49 ` Greg Ungerer
2002-10-16 15:49 Greg Ungerer
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