From: "Egger, Christoph" <chegger@amazon.de>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: ELF .note BSD_SYMTAB
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:55:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E33EFC.5020202@amazon.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E282A3.9030501@citrix.com>
On 06.08.14 21:31, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 06/08/2014 20:24, Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>> Hello. After reading through some of the libelf-loader.c and
>> libelf-dominfo.c code, it appears that Xen expects BSD guest kernels
>> to have an ELF .note auxillary entry of type XEN_ELFNOTE_BSD_SYMTAB
>> that gets parsed in so that Xen knows to allocate room for the kernels
>> symbol table. I do not see this Note (Or any note segment/section) in
>> my freebsd guest kernel image (readelf -n). Can someone explain to me
>> if this Note is still used? If so, then in what case?
>>
>
> There is no expectation persay. Merely alternative actions taken if found.
>
> I seem to recall (or I might be completely confused), it is a somewhat
> legacy NetBSDism, so I would not be at all surprised if modern FreeBSD
> doesn't use it.
I recommend to add port-xen@netbsd.org to this thread to get NetBSD
people in.
Christoph
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-06 19:24 ELF .note BSD_SYMTAB Ryan O'Neill
2014-08-06 19:31 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-08-07 8:55 ` Egger, Christoph [this message]
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