On Thursday 16 November 2006 00:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> BTW, on ia64 8192 is too small.  Linux and Xen put the ivt (interrupt
> vector table) at the head of the file because it has the largest alignment
> requirement (32Kb).  I am not sure there is a big enough hole in the ivt.
> And Xen has two ivt (-> 64kB).
> However both Linux and Xen use the ELF format.

I fail to see why. Why is it necessary to put the table _physically_ at the 
head?

Okuji


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