Subject: Re: Adding Multiboot support (or not)
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/11/2006 09:07:44
On Feb 11, 2006, at 3:16 AM, David Laight wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:22:39AM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
>>
>>    03     .rodata.str1.1 .rodata.str1.32 link_set_malloc_types  
>> link_set_ieee80211_funcs link_set_sysctl_funcs link_set_domains  
>> link_set_pools link_set_vfsops link_set_vfs_hooks link_set_evcnts  
>> link_set_dkwedge_methods link_set_bufq_strats .rodata.str1.4
>>
>> How would you handle all the sections which went to the segment 03,
>> without knowing the names of all the link sets?
>
> Link it once, find the names of the sections, update the linker  
> script and
> link again.

Nonsense.  This is a bug in ld(1) that I fixed a long time ago.  The  
example I provides had been working on evbarm for a metric eon.

-- thorpej