Subject: Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch
From: Nikita Schmidt (cetus@snowball.ucd.ie)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 02:57:43 PST
On Thursday, 30 Mar, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> It's even finer to have the linker place them so that the only thing
> we need think about when relocating the kernel is the offset used in
> vmlinux.lds.
>
True. The question remains how loaders are supposed to get the addresses
they need if the kernel image is stripped. We could perhaps make a new
non-loadable (.bss-like) section and call it, say, .params or .args. This
way the size of the arguments area will also be automatically dealt with.
Nikita
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