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Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)
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Pavel Roskin |
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Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port) |
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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:08:19 -0400 |
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 20:50 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Does anyone know why do we align ELF targets? When I did the coreboot port,
> the ELF part was based on existing Ieee1275 code, so I guess I just mimicked
> it. Is there some issue with non-i386 CPUs or with some Ieee1275
> implementations that makes this alignment a requirement?
It was a hack for PowerPC openfirmware. I don't know why it was needed.
I didn't have time and desire to debug openfirmware to find out what it
wants.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- [PATCH] i386-qemu port, Robert Millan, 2009/06/21
- does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port), Robert Millan, 2009/06/21
- Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port),
Pavel Roskin <=
- Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port), Robert Millan, 2009/06/21
- [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)), Robert Millan, 2009/06/22
- Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)), Pavel Roskin, 2009/06/22
- Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)), Robert Millan, 2009/06/22
- Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)), Pavel Roskin, 2009/06/22
- Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)), Robert Millan, 2009/06/22
- Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)), Pavel Roskin, 2009/06/22
- Re: [PATCH] define GRUB_MOD_ALIGN to 0 on non-ieee1275 (Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port)), Robert Millan, 2009/06/22
- Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port), Pavel Roskin, 2009/06/22
- Re: does module area require alignment? (Re: [PATCH] i386-qemu port), Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2009/06/22