From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752744AbYI1OHH (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:07:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751130AbYI1OG5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:06:57 -0400 Received: from saraswathi.solana.com ([198.99.130.12]:49301 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750885AbYI1OG4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:06:56 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:06:33 -0400 From: Jeff Dike To: Daniel Rosenthal Cc: LKML Subject: Re: linux object file containing all kernel symbols and suitable for userspace linking? Message-ID: <20080928140633.GA4956@c2.user-mode-linux.org> References: <4b6fba110809271957t78d7c0c6m97b2b6c1386f7700@mail.gmail.com> <4httd4pt37d715nqfvge2fau7nahbq6u3a@4ax.com> <4b6fba110809280022x4e10a068s479dd3d2fd67e9ba@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4b6fba110809280022x4e10a068s479dd3d2fd67e9ba@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:22:48AM -0400, Daniel Rosenthal wrote: > It's looks close, but it seems to be missing some symbols. Below is > an excerpt of some of the some of the error messages that come up when > trying to link vmlinux.o to another object file. It looks like all > the binary layout related symbols are missing, and jiffies also. > How/when are these symbols normally linked into the final kernel > image? These are proided by the linker script. Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com