Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:42:30 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: common RODATA in vmlinux.lds.h (2.5.59) |
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:32:10PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > [To be honest, I think the stuff with `LOAD_OFFSET' is a bit of a waste; > it seems cleaner to just have archs define their own sections as > appropriate, and use RODATA_CONTENTS directly -- it's the input sections > and related symbols that are always changing (and so better centralized), > after all, not the output sections.]
There were some reports of failed boots that boiled down to mis-alignment of a single section. With your suggestion we will end up in the same problem. __start_ksymbtab will in some cases have a value less than the actual start of the first symbol.
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