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Re: eb40a target submitted

On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 12:26, Mark Salter wrote:
> >>>>> Gary Thomas writes:
> 
> > Wrong - it may look that way, but most of the ELF image is symbolic
> > debug information and is never loaded by RedBoot.
> 
> Never loaded, but it is sent across the wire. You'd have to strip
> it of non-loadable sections first to keep from wasting bandwidth.

This shouldn't happen - only "loadable" sections are read and they
normally appear at the front of the file.  The file transfer should
be broken (terminated) as soon as all of the loadable sections have
been consumed.

... or at least, that's how I wanted it to work :-)



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