From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>,
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: common RODATA in vmlinux.lds.h (2.5.59)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 06:42:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030122054230.GA954@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoptqp954l.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
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.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-22 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-22 2:05 common RODATA in vmlinux.lds.h (2.5.59) Greg Ungerer
2003-01-22 2:49 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-22 3:25 ` Greg Ungerer
2003-01-22 4:32 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-22 4:47 ` Greg Ungerer
2003-01-22 5:42 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2003-01-22 6:00 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-22 5:55 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-22 6:23 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-22 16:32 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-23 2:03 ` Miles Bader
2003-01-23 5:59 ` Greg Ungerer
2003-01-22 6:35 ` Greg Ungerer
2003-01-22 16:35 ` Kai Germaschewski
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