ELF Low Level Stuff

Hey guys!

I'm hacking on binary images with elf... And I'm trying to figure out how a Load Memory Address fucks up with Virtual Memory Access.

The question is the following: since the compiling script removes the typical ELF data with objcopy -O binary, how the hell is the firmware loader supposed to know the differences between LMA and VMA?

ELF is bloated piece of shit. What the fuck man, just how much space you can waste on god damn procedure names in the dynamic symbol table?