In message <200007280604.PAA18928@wonder2.aist-nara.ac.jp>, ITOH Yasufumi write
s:
>In article <200007271356.JAA15268@multics.mit.edu>

>Hmm, it seems you have changed the interface to pass ELF symbols....

I haven't changed the interface at all. This has all been speculation,
no commits made.

>My boot loader can't pass symbols to the kernel now, since it doesn't
>use the algorithm....  It excludes shstrtab since it wasn't used.

I'm not sure what you're saying. Do you mean debugging symbols (.stab)
or regular global symbols.

Or are you using a boot loader other than biosboot/libsa?

>I'm not saying that you should revert the changes, but
>will you please document the specification of the interface?
>A spec like "code is the spec" will easily be broken.

I haven't made any changes, so you have me confused...

>Fortunately, the boot loader has not been released,
>and nobody is affected (besides me :).
>I'll fix it before release.

See above ;-)

--jhawk