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Re: RedBoot creating overlapping files?
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:13:38PM -0700, Gary D. Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 17:03, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > zImage 0x50040000 0x11600000 0x00100000 0x11600000
> > > root 0x50100000 0x11000000 0x00800000 0x00000000
> > >
> > > The last two files (zImage and root) overlap. zImage ends at
> > > 50140000 but root starts at 50100000. I think the problem is
> > > caused by the fact that though the zImage file ends at
> > > 0x5014000, the data within that file ends at 0x500eb458
> There were arguments about this in the past. As I said
> earlier, it probably does make sense to at least use the FIS
> directory to validate what's being used.
Agreed -- I was thinking about working on that. But, I need to
get updated to the current CVS version first. Hopefully that
won't open up too big a can of worms...
> In reality, I mostly just do the "allocation" myself and always
> specify the locations directly.
Yup, that's what I'm doing now too [after I finally remembered
you could do that].
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Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
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