From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
Subject: Re: embedding data in ELF (Re: moving ata initialisation to a command)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:21:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199298087.3510.8.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071226080024.GC9681@thorin>
On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 09:00 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> >
> > I'd prefer to support embedding filesystems in core.img instead. This
> > solves the problem for every situation instead of just PC boot media
> > (e.g. LinuxBIOS ELF payload image).
>
> Btw, any ELF wizard around? I wonder if ELF has any provisions for embedding
> raw data to it.
You can add arbitrary sections, just make sure to avoid reserved names:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/book/ELF-generic/ELF-generic/specialsections.html
objcopy supports --add-section, which can add sections from files.
Good starting point for information about ELF:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linking_Format
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-16 15:30 moving ata initialisation to a command Robert Millan
2007-12-16 15:58 ` Christian Franke
2007-12-16 16:06 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2007-12-16 16:19 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-17 15:52 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-17 16:01 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-17 18:26 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-12-17 19:01 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-20 17:38 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-20 17:36 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-21 16:47 ` Marco Gerards
2007-12-21 18:04 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-21 20:54 ` embedding filesystems in core image (Re: moving ata initialisation to a command) Robert Millan
2007-12-22 4:28 ` Bean
2007-12-22 11:24 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-22 12:27 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-12-22 12:18 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-22 12:24 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2007-12-23 18:44 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-16 20:10 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-20 23:21 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-24 8:29 ` Bean
2007-12-24 13:09 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-24 13:27 ` Bean
2007-12-24 16:24 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-24 16:44 ` Bean
2008-01-02 19:56 ` Robert Millan
2007-12-26 8:00 ` embedding data in ELF " Robert Millan
2008-01-02 18:21 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2007-12-26 7:57 ` avoid firmware in grub-mkrescue " Robert Millan
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