Re: [MiNT] ELF

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:22:33 , Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 00:18:00 , Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I suppose an ELF binary that does not load a lib is the same as
> > a statically linked binary. Presumably they made allowance
> > for that and backward compatibility to some degree ?
> >
> > I notice that u-boot has a basic ELF loader.
> >
> > Peter
> >
>
> This is an interesting read on the basics of ELF loading:
>
> http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/08/13/how-statically-linked-programs-run-on-linux/
>
>
> Peter
>

Maybe someone who knows the existing Mint loader might be interested
in having a look at the u-boot loader.

http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=common/cmd_efi.c;h=c76296e7259f6b8e5b40148e894a2f953ba0ffdb;hb=9dffa52da8f3fd23fe38ee184512b2a08678d933



Regards,

Peter