Subject: Re: Topdown UVM breaking COMPAT_IRIX?
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/03/2003 09:02:23
On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 03:07  PM, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> In the probe function, I need to open the interpeter file, load its ELF
> header, look for the right section header and get the load address from
> it. Not an overkill job, but it's a bit frustrating to introduce the
> need for it. How did it worked before, and why can't it still work like
> that?

If you weren't using FIXED before, you were just lucky.  If something 
must be loaded at a fixed address, you must use FIXED to ensure proper 
operation.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>