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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:40:32PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> /dev/ksyms currently does not work when using multiboot because it
> does not initialize the ELF header passed to userland when adding the
> symbol table (it does not call ksyms_hdr_init).
>=20
> I've attached a fix.  Can you think of a cleaner way of addressing
> this?  (I was considering keeping the code all together in
> kern_ksyms.c as MI, but I don't know if that'd be possible given that
> the ELF header contains details about the platform.)

Well, machine/elf_machdep.h ought to contain some information.  E.g.,
ARCH_ELFSIZE and ELFXX_MACHDEP_ID/ELFXX_MACHDEP_ENDIANNESS, but I don't
think that right now you can expect those to be consistent across all
archs.

I don't think it's necessarily better the MI code guesses that kind of
stuff.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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