>Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:20:33 +0200 (MET DST) >From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> >To: Gerald Champagne <gerald.champagne@esstech.com> >Subject: Re: Moving kernel_entry to LOADADDR > >On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Gerald Champagne wrote: > >> I also removed the .fill, and now kernel_entry is always exactly LOADADDR, >> and that makes my bootloader easier to maintain. >> >> Is this worth changing in cvs, or did I miss something? > > How about just getting it from the ELF header? It's trivial. Because a bare bones bootloader may not know anything about ELF. The simplest solution is to just stick a "jmp start_kernel" at LOADADDR right before the fill. Then the load address and the entry point are the same. Once the exception vectors get loaded, they'll overwrite the jmp, so no space is wasted and none of the LOADADDRs have to be changed. Mike McDonald mikemac@mikemac.com
