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From: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
To: NarayVA@nsc-msg01.network.com
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Elf to Bin format
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 08:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200106041540.f54FewL23960@deneb.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A7E1C26945C8D211ADBF0008C709661A02A48822@nsc-msg02.network.com>

>>>>> Narayana, Venkat A writes:

> Hi,
> Can you pls help me in figuring out
> what happens when we convert ELF to a Bin format,
> using objdump tool. I mean, how can i be sure
        ^^^^^^^
You did mean objcopy, right?

> that all sections of elf file got dumped into 
> bin file? Is there any tool/utility which will allow
> me to look into bin file and decipher the contents?

There is nothing to decipher. The binary file contains only
the raw section contents at appropriate offsets. There is no
information to decipher.

> As was previously stated in this thread, my bin
> file, when i flashed it into a flash, does not contain
> .data section.

What makes you think this?

Please post the results of:

  % objdump -h redboot.elf

and

  % ls -l redboot.bin

--Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-04  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-04  8:21 Narayana, Venkat A.
2001-06-04  8:34 ` Mark Salter [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-04 11:49 Narayana, Venkat A.
2001-06-04 12:00 ` Gary Thomas
2001-06-04  8:57 Narayana, Venkat A.
2001-06-04  9:20 ` Mark Salter
2001-06-04 11:54   ` Grant Edwards
2001-06-04  7:34 Narayana, Venkat A.
2001-06-04  9:17 ` Jonathan Larmour
2001-06-01  9:18 Narayana, Venkat A.
2001-06-01 16:07 ` Jonathan Larmour

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