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