From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: ELF .note BSD_SYMTAB
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:31:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E282A3.9030501@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E280E4.2060806@zoho.com>
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On 06/08/2014 20:24, Ryan O'Neill wrote:
> Hello. After reading through some of the libelf-loader.c and
> libelf-dominfo.c code, it appears that Xen expects BSD guest kernels
> to have an ELF .note auxillary entry of type XEN_ELFNOTE_BSD_SYMTAB
> that gets parsed in so that Xen knows to allocate room for the kernels
> symbol table. I do not see this Note (Or any note segment/section) in
> my freebsd guest kernel image (readelf -n). Can someone explain to me
> if this Note is still used? If so, then in what case?
>
There is no expectation persay. Merely alternative actions taken if found.
I seem to recall (or I might be completely confused), it is a somewhat
legacy NetBSDism, so I would not be at all surprised if modern FreeBSD
doesn't use it.
~Andrew
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2014-08-06 19:24 ELF .note BSD_SYMTAB Ryan O'Neill
2014-08-06 19:31 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-08-07 8:55 ` Egger, Christoph
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