On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:07:39AM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:19:21 Frank Rowand wrote: > > > Or populate /proc/atags only for the ones that need it from machine > > > specific init_early? > > > > This is circling back to the first comment from Russell King where > > he suggested a legacy file for the N900 which calls save_atags(): > > > > Are the ATAGs at a fixed address on the N900? Can that be handled in > > some kind of legacy file for the N900 which calls save_atags() on it, so > > we don't end up introducing yet more stuff that we have to maintain into > > the distant future? If not, what about copying a known working atag > > structure into a legacy file for the N900? > > > > It seems to me that patches 1, 2, 4, and 5 could be replaced by this > > approach. > > Hi Frank, in this case I will ask my question again: It is possible to > read atags from that legacy file. And if yes how? I was not thinking > about this approach because somebody in past wrote that this is not > possible... It is possible to redirect any program to open any other file. You can do it via a LD preload, and intercepting the open(), and possibly the read() calls if you want to do something more fancy. The down-side is that you have to arrange for the preloaded object to be used by the linker, and the additional overhead it places on the intercepted functions. Eg, openatags.c: #define open libc_open #include <fcntl.h> #undef open #include <string.h> int open(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode) { static int (*old_open)(const char *pathname, int flags, mode_t mode); if (strcmp(pathname, "/proc/atags") == 0) pathname = "/tmp/my-atags"; if (!old_open) old_open = dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "open"); return old_open(pathname, flags, mode); } Build the above (untested) with: gcc -O2 -o openatags.o -c openatags.c gcc -shared -o openatags.so openatags.o -ldl Now, when running one of these programs, you can test it with: LD_PRELOAD=openatags.so /name/of/program You could also list the full pathname to openatags.so in /etc/ld.so.preload, but test it first, because it will always be used by the linker in that case, and you wouldn't want normal commands to misbehave. Note that putting it in /etc/ld.so.preload will also have the effect that cat /proc/atags will also get redirected to /tmp/my-atags too. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: currently at 9.6Mbps down 400kbps up according to speedtest.net. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html