From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic ELF loading
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:23:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061014172325.GA3021@saphi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610141733.44320.okuji@enbug.org>
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:44PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Saturday 14 October 2006 00:37, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > This patch adds generic ELF loading infrastructure for both 32-bit and
> > 64-bit ELF. It provides an "iterate" function for program headers, and a
> > "load" function for convenience.
>
> The idea is very good. But I don't like that loaded areas are always allocated
> from the heap. GRUB has a staging area for OS images on i386-pc, and I prefer
> to load an image directly instead of consuming the heap.
Two points for ia64:
* the area must be allocated from EFI.
* we need to support relocation: loading the ELF file with an offset
(this feature can be on/off/forced).
Tristan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-14 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-13 22:37 [PATCH] generic ELF loading Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-13 22:40 ` [PATCH] ppc64 Linux ELF loader Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-14 15:33 ` [PATCH] generic ELF loading Yoshinori K. Okuji
2006-10-14 17:23 ` Tristan Gingold [this message]
2006-10-24 20:41 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-24 20:03 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-24 20:48 ` Johan Rydberg
2006-10-24 20:45 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-10-25 5:53 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-14 3:03 Mao, Bibo
2006-10-24 20:21 ` Hollis Blanchard
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