Re: [PATCH] generic ELF loading

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Saturday 14 October 2006 00:37, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> This patch adds generic ELF loading infrastructure for both 32-bit and
> 64-bit ELF. It provides an "iterate" function for program headers, and a
> "load" function for convenience.

The idea is very good. But I don't like that loaded areas are always allocated 
from the heap. GRUB has a staging area for OS images on i386-pc, and I prefer 
to load an image directly instead of consuming the heap.

Thanks,
Okuji