From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.33) id 1CaFuc-0002DW-IT for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:04:02 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CaFub-0002DR-BW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:04:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CaFua-0002DF-VA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:04:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CaFua-0002DC-QH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:04:00 -0500 Received: from [193.45.208.6] (helo=griffin.skarpodata.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CaFkX-0000fo-Oa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:53:38 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (183.201.216.81.s-s.siw.siwnet.net [81.216.201.183]) by griffin.skarpodata.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB3HIGld013374; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 18:18:16 +0100 To: Marco Gerards References: <20041203053646.GA22463@miracle> <87mzwvlf4o.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <87fz2ntrtc.fsf@night.trouble.net> <87acsvlb8y.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> <877jnztnx2.fsf@night.trouble.net> <87653jl86n.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> From: Johan Rydberg Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:04:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87653jl86n.fsf@marco.marco-g.com> (Marco Gerards's message of "Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:20:48 +0000") Message-ID: <87r7m7s70b.fsf@night.trouble.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: Re: [ppc patch] grub-mkimage X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:04:01 -0000 Marco Gerards writes: > Isn't that impossible because GRUB has its own GOT? I mean: GRUB has > to lookup all symbols itself, etc. If I am wrong, I have no idea how > to do it. As I said to you off-line, the GOT-track might not be worth even exploring. Instead, at least in my opinion, move the modules within the calling range of the "b" insn ; thus eliminating chances of overflows. > I hope to finish module loading so it at least works this weekend > using the method that can still cause overflows. Can you have a look > at the code when I send it in and explain it using the GRUB code? I could take a look at it, Yes. ~j