On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Peter Wemm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:37 PM, David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:35:35AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, David E. O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Author: obrien >>> > Date: Thu Jul 10 16:35:57 2008 >>> > New Revision: 180431 >>> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/180431 >>> > >>> > Log: >>> > Allow 'elf_file_t' to be used in a wider scope. >>> > >>> > Modified: >>> > head/sys/kern/link_elf.c >>> > head/sys/sys/link_elf.h >>> >>> This really was intentional. elf_file_t was supposed to be opaque and >>> changeable. What do you need this for? >> >> Juniper needs to be able to call functions in the loadable modules before >> the modules are actually linked into the kernel. This will be used to >> call platform specific initialization functions early in the bootup >> process. Will also need un-static link_elf_preload_parse_symbols, >> parse_dynamic, symbol_name, link_elf_lookup_symbol, >> link_elf_symbol_values. > > I think you should leave it in Juniper's tree for a tad longer: > ../../../kern/link_elf_obj.c:88: error: redefinition of 'struct elf_file' > ../../../kern/link_elf_obj.c:119: error: redefinition of typedef 'elf_file_t' > ../../../sys/link_elf.h:133: error: previous declaration of > 'elf_file_t' was here > > There is a better way to do what you want though. You're using loader > still, right? I have old code kicking around that allowed linking the > kernel against a hal module properly. I did this to support linking > the kernel against an apic / smp / apic / 8259 module and > combinations.
I forgot to mention.. the fact that kld's happen to currently be ELF is very specifically and deliberately not part of any public API. All references go via linker_* because there is no guarantee about elf, a.out, pecoff, raw binary, whatever. -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
