Subject: Re: Using Etherboot ELF/FreeBSD loader to netboot ELF/NetBSD
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/27/2003 20:48:27
>
> We probably should start adding a, "I'm a NetBSD kernel," note in order to
> help non-NetBSD booters do the right thing.
  0 .text         0017099c  c0100000  c0100000  00001000  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  1 .rodata       0002c061  c02709a0  c02709a0  001719a0  2**5
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  2 .data         0001b4b0  c029da20  c029da20  0019da20  2**5
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  3 .bss          00045d1c  c02b8ee0  c02b8ee0  001b8ee0  2**5
                  ALLOC
  4 .note         00001fe0  c02febfc  c02febfc  001b8ee0  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY
  5 .ident        00000434  c0300bdc  c0300bdc  001baec0  2**0
                  CONTENTS, READONLY


looks there is no such section in kernel binary (there is in regular
userland binaries).

now compiling test kernel with options REALBASEMEM/REALEXTMEM hardwired to
see if other things are different too.