On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:08:19PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > 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.
Is the hack you're referring to GRUB_MOD_GAP, GRUB_MOD_ALIGN or both? Btw, I suspect GRUB_MOD_GAP might be related to the modules overlapping with the BSS because of a firmware loader bug. Is there a correlation between the needed GRUB_MOD_GAP and the BSS size? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
