Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:48:42 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: linux-2.5.42uc1 (MMU-less support) |
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> This isn't old. It is the primary format used on uClinux. ELF > and a.out are not practical, since you would need to do the final > link/locate on them at exec load time (you won't know what address > in memory they will get loaded to until them). You don have the > VM luxary of just locating it at a fixed address at compile time. > > FLAT format is a light weight, mostly architecture independant > way to carry around relocs, and to keep the program binaries > small.
I don't meant binfmt_flat itself but the support for the old-style relocs that is still in the code.
BTW, does binfmt_flat for for any non-uClinux port?
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