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

H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-06T16:28:38Z

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?