[U-Boot-Users] Question About how the CPU find the right string address in U-boot binary file ?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Jun 5 18:00:08 CEST 2008


In message <1212680342.7271.32.camel at localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
> 
> >  I search all the U-boot.bin, and CANNOT find any "00 02 B2 80" (that
> > is the string "Call backtrace:") using hex search.
> 
> hmm where did this number came from?  is it the offset from the start of
> the binary file ?? in that case it's obviously not going to be right the
> data in the got table is absolute values and depend on where the final
> link put the code. 

Speculation that he might actually be on a MIPS box, and that this
might eventually be running in little endian mode, he might eventually
have byte order issues.


Wolfgang Denk

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