From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Mikael Petterson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised)
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:17:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47309389.3080403@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <472FC401.9020202@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The ELF note format is sane enough, although it looks like it's not
> self-terminating, so we'd either need an offset and a length field, or
> adopt the convention that namesz = descsz = type = 0 terminates the
> block (I prefer the latter, myself.)
Hm, I think offset+length would be better: it's how they're represented
in a normal ELF file, so you can just extract the length if you're
extracting the notes. Also, generating a terminating note with the
current linker-based notes machinery would be a bit of a pain.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-05 2:16 [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised) H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-05 3:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-05 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-05 17:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-05 18:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-05 18:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-05 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-05 20:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-05 20:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-05 20:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-05 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 0:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-06 1:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 1:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-06 1:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 16:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-11-06 16:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 16:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-11-06 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 17:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-06 17:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 18:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-06 18:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06 17:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-05 21:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-11-05 21:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-05 21:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
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