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From: Tristan Gingold <tgingold@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic ELF loading
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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.