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* What is .MIPS.options ELF section?
@ 2003-04-17 16:47 Jun Sun
  2003-04-17 18:32 ` Thiemo Seufer
  2003-04-17 18:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jun Sun @ 2003-04-17 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips; +Cc: jsun


I started to play with the new N32/N64 toolchains.  I notice a new
section is generated for kernel, called .MIPS.options.  (it actually
causes some grief for some firmware)

Can someone enlighten me a little bit on what it is? 


Jun

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* Re: What is .MIPS.options ELF section?
  2003-04-17 16:47 What is .MIPS.options ELF section? Jun Sun
@ 2003-04-17 18:32 ` Thiemo Seufer
  2003-04-17 18:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thiemo Seufer @ 2003-04-17 18:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips

Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> I started to play with the new N32/N64 toolchains.  I notice a new
> section is generated for kernel, called .MIPS.options.  (it actually
> causes some grief for some firmware)
> 
> Can someone enlighten me a little bit on what it is? 

In its current state it is basically a replacement for .reginfo.
For kernels etc. it can simply be /DISCARD/'ed.


Thiemo

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* Re: What is .MIPS.options ELF section?
  2003-04-17 16:47 What is .MIPS.options ELF section? Jun Sun
  2003-04-17 18:32 ` Thiemo Seufer
@ 2003-04-17 18:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Maciej W. Rozycki @ 2003-04-17 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jun Sun; +Cc: linux-mips

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Jun Sun wrote:

> I started to play with the new N32/N64 toolchains.  I notice a new
> section is generated for kernel, called .MIPS.options.  (it actually
> causes some grief for some firmware)

 It's a replacement for the .reginfo section of o32.  See
'ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/ELF64.ps' for details. 

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