Re: amd64 kernels and text address

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:09:40PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Upon further inspection, I noticed the following in the resulting  
> binaries:
> 
> Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File  
> off  Algn
>   0 .text         005c4548  ffffffff80100000  ffffffff80100000   
> 00100000  2**6
>                   CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE

Not that I could offer any help, but just note that sparc64 has similar
constraints (needs text + rodata merged and big-page aligned, puts data
big-page aligned after that), and it works there:

Idx Name          Size      VMA               LMA               File off  Algn
  0 .text         00230100  0000000001000000  0000000001000000  00000100  2**7
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE

One other note: the leading zeros should not realy hurt that much, as the
file is sparse, and all zeroes should compress pretty well.

How did you try to add your separate section?

Martin