Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-05-10 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:55:22PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > On 24.04.2018 12:42, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:34PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > >> On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote > The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-26 Thread Alexander Boettcher
On 24.04.2018 12:42, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:34PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: >> On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode e.g.), which leads to strange boot behaviour. >>> >>> Have you been able

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-24 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:34PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote > >> The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode e.g.), which > >> leads to strange boot behaviour. > > > > Have you been able to take a look at memory allocat

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-23 Thread Alexander Boettcher
Hello, On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote >> The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode e.g.), which >> leads to strange boot behaviour. > > Have you been able to take a look at memory allocator/relocator code why > this happened? for me it looks like, that either already

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-17 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On April 17, 2018 3:40:11 PM EDT, Daniel Kiper wrote: >Hi Alexander, > >On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:07:29AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 06.04.2018 14:28, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher >wrote: >> > >> >> Can you please

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-17 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi Alexander, On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:07:29AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > On 06.04.2018 14:28, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > > > >> Can you please have a look and check regarding what should/could be > >> change

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-13 Thread Alexander Boettcher
Hello, On 06.04.2018 14:28, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > >> Can you please have a look and check regarding what should/could be >> changed to get it upstream? We did not test the dynamic relocation part, > > Sure thing, please take a

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-06 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > our project uses various (micro)kernels booted via GRUB2 using the > Multiboot & Multiboot2 protocol. Some of the kernels have several ELF > segments which are not necessarily placed close together. > > When booting s