Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:13:24 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [patch 16/21] Xen-paravirt: Add code into head.S to handle being booted by Xen |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Ok. If that is all this may be a difference that makes no difference. > binutils has a bad habit of looking at sections (which are fully > optional) instead of segments on ET_EXEC and ET_DYN objects. Only > ET_REL objects (.o files) are required to have sections. >
The Xen domain loader will have to be changed to deal with that, which isn't too much of a problem.
My main concern is the randomness of it, and whether it will fail in some more harmful way on other versions of binutils.
> So I recommend for testing write a 100 line program that includes > elf.h and reads out the note segment. If all is well we can split > this code out. >
The Xen readnotes utility is essentially that. I'll hack it.
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