From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755438AbXKFQRr (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:17:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753228AbXKFQRl (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:17:41 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:56266 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751729AbXKFQRk (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:17:40 -0500 Message-ID: <47309389.3080403@goop.org> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:17:13 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Mikael Petterson Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised) References: <200711050358.lA53wlho003349@tazenda.hos.anvin.org> <472F5941.2060507@zytor.com> <472F61C8.4040300@zytor.com> <472F7D8D.8050505@zytor.com> <472F826E.3050008@goop.org> <472F85F2.6040501@zytor.com> <472FBC83.5060509@goop.org> <472FBF40.1010300@zytor.com> <472FC0F3.10102@goop.org> <472FC401.9020202@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <472FC401.9020202@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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