Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/amd64

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:02:17AM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Please stop with the nonsense... In this patch you are making the multiboot
> header executable, and putting it in a section shared with userland under
> SVS. Neither should be required; more than that, both are absolutely _not_
> wanted.

What are the actual drawbacks? 

FWIW, this is in line with how it was done on i386: it is just stored
at the beginning of .text. Xen does the same. Of course it seems more
natural to store that in a note section this is not loaded, but after
experimenting a lot, I am not sure it can be done, since ld really
want to push notes at the end of the file.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost