Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: common RODATA in vmlinux.lds.h (2.5.59) | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 22 Jan 2003 15:00:25 +0900 |
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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes: > > [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.
Then it would seem an alignment directive should probably be included before __start_ksymbtab (and possibly other places). [but I can't see what it has to do with having separate sections or not.]
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