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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:51:46 -0600
From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
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Subject: Difference between vmlinux and vmlinux.bin
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I'm trying to write an ELF loader for a PowerPC vmlinux, and I've come across 
something I don't understand.

In vmlinux, there are two Program Segments, the first of which is PT_LOAD.  What 
is the difference between the block of data inside this section, and 
vmlinux.bin?  I thought that vmlinux.bin is nothing more than the PT_LOAD 
section of vmlinux.  However, when I do a memcmp, there is a difference at 
offset 3080192 (vmlinux.bin is 4874532 bytes long):

memcmp @ 3080192 125 != 31
32 bytes @ 412f0000:

7d 20 00 28 31 29 ff ff 7d 20 01 2d 40 a2 ff f4
2f 89 00 00 41 9e 01 9c 7f e3 fb 78 4b d7 b0 75
32 bytes @ 42300000:

1f 8b 08 08 b7 e7 7a 44 00 03 62 75 73 79 62 6f
78 2d 31 2e 31 2e 33 2e 69 6d 67 00 ec 5d 7d 74

So when Kbuild creates vmlinux.bin, what does it do besides extract the PT_LOAD 
segment?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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