The Linux binutils 2.11.90.0.23 released on 2001-07-14 introduced a new feature, .incbin, which allows you to include a set of binary data at a given point in the assembly. It is better than # ld -r --format binary --oformat ... since it will set appropriate bits in the ELF header. Here is a patch against 2.5.70 to use .incbin. H.J.