On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 04:00:28AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > 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? Because: * it is done so! * it has the biggest alignment constraint.
Theorically it is not required, but everyone do that. Tristan. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
