Still trying to get the Booter loading kernels using libsa's
loadfile code. Can anyone enlighten me about the following (seeming)
contradiction:

* An a.out format kernel usually has a non-zero entry point.
  (e.g. exec.a_entry = 0x2A00)

* The old Booter kernel loading code loads the text segment at
  address 0 of the supplied buffer, which means that the Booter
  jumps to an entry point a_entry bytes into both the buffer,
  and the text segment

* The loadfile code loads the text segment at address MARK_START
  plus a_entry:

    u_long entry = x->a_entry
    ...
    paddr_t offset = marks[MARK_START];
    ...
    min = maxp = ALIGNENTRY(entry)
    ...
        if (READ(fd, maxp, x->a_text - sub) != x->a_text - sub) {

  which means that the Booter jumps into an entry point a_entry
  bytes into the buffer, but 0 bytes into the text segment


	Looking at the kernel sources, none of the other bootloaders
seem to do anything special - they just jump to marks[MARK_ENTRY].

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