Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage | Date | Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:25:58 -0600 |
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:
Ok. I just noticed another piece that we want to change for greater compatibility. We should make the virtual and the physical addresses the same. Then there is no danger of some loader getting them mixed up.
I.e. Not:
> +.org 80 > +phdr: > + .int PT_LOAD # p_type > + .int (SETUPSECTS+1)*512 # p_offset > + .int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR + __PAGE_OFFSET # p_vaddr > + .int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR # p_paddr > + .int SYSSIZE*16 # p_filesz > + .int 0 # p_memsz > + .int PF_R | PF_W | PF_X # p_flags > + .int CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN # p_align > +e_phdr: > +
but > +.org 80 > +phdr: > + .int PT_LOAD # p_type > + .int (SETUPSECTS+1)*512 # p_offset > + .int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR # p_vaddr > + .int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR # p_paddr > + .int SYSSIZE*16 # p_filesz > + .int 0 # p_memsz > + .int PF_R | PF_W | PF_X # p_flags > + .int CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN # p_align > +e_phdr: > + > start2: > movw %cs, %ax > movw %ax, %ds > @@ -78,11 +128,11 @@ die:
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