Subject: "page alignment" of kernels in the Booter
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
From: None <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/12/2001 11:16:52
The current Booter tries to align various parts of the kernel
on VM-page boundaries. It always aligns TEXT, aligns DATA for ZMAGIC
and NMAGIC kernels, and also aligns the end of the buffer at the end
of a page boundary.
I am trying to hack ELF support in. The libsa/loadfile code
only seems to align some sections to longword boundaries. So, can I
assume that an ELF kernel will always have the correct alignments
compiled/linked in?
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