Re: CVS commit: src/sys/conf

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Nov 13, 10:49pm, uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost (Masao Uebayashi) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/conf

| On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
| > On Nov 13, 10:28pm, uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost (Masao Uebayashi) wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/conf
| >
| > | On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
| > | > On Nov 13, 10:15pm, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost (Izumi Tsutsui) wrote:
| > | > -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/conf
| > | >
| > | > | I'm not sure about your goal, but anyway it should be proposed
| > | > | and discussed proper lists before commit.
| > |
| > | I have almost no questions, nothing to discuess except details.
| > |
| > | > | In the perfect world, both cats and shark should have native bootloaders
| > | > | that can load native ELF directly and the a.out hack seems a special case.
| > | >
| > | > The script is also used to produce the __{start,stop}_link_set.* symbols
| > | > for modules now...
| > |
| > | I know.
| > |
| > | And as I said repeatedly, it moves link_set_* sections at wrong places...
| >
| > It does not matter currently. It is really simple to move them anywhere
| > when it makes a difference.
| 
| It does not matter for you, it matters for me.

Any solution that involves hard-coding the currently used linksets by
name is no solution for me. Please come up with a complete solution,
and present it for discussion. Yes, the current script is a hack, but
it is a hack we've been using for a while successfully.

christos