>>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16.03.07 06:10 >>> >Zachary Amsden wrote: >> Well testing that is not so fun. I installed SUSE Pro 9.0, and >> strings on ld.so contains the magic at_sysinfo assert! But it doesn't >> install TLS libraries, so I'll have to install them by hand. >> >> In works - in theory. Look, a puppy! >> >> Scratchbox is rumored to produce the fabled assertion even on modern >> distros by installing its own toolchain which includes the dreaded glibc. > >I think Andi and Andrew have boxes which are afflicted.
I have one, too (which is one reasone why I created the original Xen patch). >> I'm playing safe. Binary identical relocation to 0xffffe000 was my goal. > >Yeah, fair enough. But as Eric likes to keep pointing out, an >executable ELF file need not have any sections at all, so the only safe >course for anything "real" is via the section headers. Program headers you mean. >So I guess the right thing to do is relocate the dynamic stuff via >PT_DYNAMIC, and relocate the symtab if its present. Symtab should also be deduced from program headers. I'm actually surprised this got re-implemented from scratch, when my patch already had both variants (one just #ifdef-ed out), and was tested in both forms (actually, I first implemented the ELF form, and only after seeing the bloat it added to the sources I came up with the second variant, which in the end unfortunately didn't add significantly less bloat to the Makefile. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
