Re: Change of TEXT_OFFSET for multi_v7_defconfig

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On 17 April 2014 21:49, Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In any case, when performing boot debugging I'm not as interested in
> traditional self-hosted bootloaders as I am external loaders, like those built
> into software models (QEMU, Fast Models, etc.) or available to JTAG scripts
> (OpenOCD, Trace32, etc.). These seem to generally have ELF support.

FWIW ARM QEMU won't boot an ELF kernel -- the assumption is
that an ELF file is not a kernel and should just be put into RAM
and run, whereas a non-ELF file is a kernel and gets the special
setup/handling of secondary CPUs/etc that the Booting document
requires.

thanks
-- PMM

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