Subject: Re: Adding Multiboot support (or not)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/11/2006 12:18:57
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 10:06:51AM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Thanks for the info.  But note that NetBSD also uses the Multiboot
> header to reserve some extra space after the BSS so that it can later
> copy the symbol table there.  It tells the boot loader that the
> BSS is actually longer than it is so that the loader will leave that
> space untouched (grep for MULTIBOOT_SYMTAB_SPACE).  How could we do
> this (without reserving space in the data section, that is)?

Why is it necessary to copy the symbol table somewhere? Can't you leave it
where it is?

Pavel