Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised)

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 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.

.notes : {
	*(.note.*)
	. = ALIGN(4);
	LONG(0);
	LONG(0);
	LONG(0);
}

Am I missing something?