Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Oct 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > I just did a quick check and the kernels 32bit entry point > > has changed again. In particular the segment numbers > > that are used are different. > > how different?
The contents of the segment registers are different. As 2.5.x currently sits they only way to have a version of mkelfImage that works for both 2.5.recent and 2.4.x is to explicitly test the version number. >Are there a different number of registers, or did they just > move around? > > Also, doesn't the 32-bit entry point get handled transparently by the ELF > code? Yes so no BIOS's need to be rebuilt. But tools like mkelfImage need some help. Hopefully I can get some native support into Linux and then I can just skip the need to port mkelfImage, to newer kernels. The feature freeze is on the 20th so I don't know if I will be able to get anything in or not. > We have the same problem with plan 9. We're going to need to figure out > how to parameterize this sooner or later. Getting support into the kernel proper is they only long term maintainable way to go. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
