Relocating ELF Files

If relocation is specified for a given file, mkimage relocates it and stores the resulting absolute binary file in the memory bank. You can specify how many program segments must contain the resulting binary file and, for each individual segment, how it must be relocated.

A segment can be relocated into a linking area or to the segment image's base address within the memory bank.

A linking area is a named range of addresses specified by an id, a base address, and a size. You can specify a different linking area for each program segment. mkimage relocates a segment to the lowest available range of addresses of a suitable size within the linking area. mkimage guarantees that different segments relocated to the same linking area will never overlap. However, segments relocated to overlapping linking areas can overlap.