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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].

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com

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