Hi Richard, On 11/27/2013 10:27 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > On 27/11/13 15:07, Christopher Covington wrote: >> By the way I find the terminology of "AXF" very confusing. As far as I >> understand it, AXF is essentially synonymous with the ARM ELF file format. >> What's really being discussed, though, is the boot-wrapper, right? > > AXF is a filename extension and its origins are historical. It dates to > the pre-elf days when ARM's internal toolchain used proprietary object > and executable file formats. AOF was the extension used for linkable > Object files and AXF for eXecutable files. When the switch to ELF > occurred, the extension AXF was maintained as it helped users know that > the file was firstly executable, and secondly not a windows executable > (windows works by mapping file extensions onto programs that can operate > on them, like the ARM debugger).
I've often wondered. Thanks for the history lesson! Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation. _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
