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On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 14:38 +0200, Philipp Donzé wrote:

> No I'm not sure. I'm not that experienced with these Unix binary formats. 
> Its hard to find a good explanation for these on the web. All I know comes 
> from sources on the web. I.e. at 
> http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/exotica.html it's written that 
> uClinux on coldfire processor uses relocation table in the flat binary.
> Also you can read at http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=5&topic=elf 
> about "relocation section". So I think ELF doesn't forget about this 
> information.
> Perhaps there are numerous different ELF variants? (Linux, FreeBSD, Sun,...)

Just be careful about comparing what runs on the Coldfire, since the
newer coldfire CPUs do have an MMU, and so they can run a full Linux
now.

I beleive that uCLinux has grown to actually support the use of an MMU
on some platforms now, and if that is the case the line between Linux
2.6 and uCLinux is very blurred.