[note I stumbled across the posting by accident, i'm not on port-i386 ;]

What exactly is the problem - finding the start address?
That's easy, see http://www.feyrer.de/Misc/elf_hdr.c, which reads the
header of an ELF binary and prints the start address (tested on
Linux/i386, Solaris/x86).

When loading "the kernel" from disk, you may need to do relocation
of the various sections, though...


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>