Hi Joel... On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Joel A Fernandes <agnel.joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am looking at a problem that might be too difficult to solve, or > might not if I'm missing something so I thought I'd bounce it off this > group, > > Basically I have an application in userspace who's ".data" section > _has_ to be loaded into particular locations in physical memory. That > is, there is a chunk of physical memory that has to contain the .data > section and no other part of physical memory should. > > What is the easiest way to do this? I guess, changes might be required > to the ELF loaders in fs/bin*.c. Any other tricks? I somewhat agree that the solution would be changing some parts in ELF loader. But not sure which one, loader in kernel space, user space or both. PS: are you considering creating special data section? perhaps by using custom ld script? -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
