Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Well I did a little by hand parsing and the not I parsed looked ok. > > How does the output differ from a what you get when xen-head.S is > included? > Ah! The .notes section gets SHT_NOTE in vmlinux when xen-head.S is included; PROGBITS when linked. I tried putting @note on the .section in linux/elfnote.h, but that didn't seem to help (xen-note.o got a SHT_NOTE entry, but it didn't make it into vmlinux). I couldn't see any way of forcing the section type in vmlinux.lds; my experiments all ended with ld dumping core. J