On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:50 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:

> Does anyone know why do we align ELF targets?  When I did the coreboot port,
> the ELF part was based on existing Ieee1275 code, so I guess I just mimicked
> it.  Is there some issue with non-i386 CPUs or with some Ieee1275
> implementations that makes this alignment a requirement?

It was a hack for PowerPC openfirmware.  I don't know why it was needed.
I didn't have time and desire to debug openfirmware to find out what it
wants.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


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