[U-Boot-Users] Raw binary u-boot.bin is bigger that elf file u-boot

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <b4ab3e29050126160843cb886a at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> u-boot            - 60442 bytes
> u-boot.bin     - 947911360 bytes.
> u-boot.map  - 116152 bytes.
> 
> This is really confusing since we get the raw binary by running the
> "objcopy" tool on the ELF format file u-boot.

This can happen easily if there  are  (huge)  gaps  in  your  image's
address map. Run "objdump -h" to check this.

> Any help on this shall be really helpful

Check your linker script and compare against the  memory  map  needed
for your hardware.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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