Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-05-10 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:55:22PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > On 24.04.2018 12:42, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:34PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > >> On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote > The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-26 Thread Alexander Boettcher
On 24.04.2018 12:42, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:34PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: >> On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode e.g.), which leads to strange boot behaviour. >>> >>> Have you been

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-24 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 08:26:34PM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote > >> The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode e.g.), which > >> leads to strange boot behaviour. > > > > Have you been able to take a look at memory

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-23 Thread Alexander Boettcher
Hello, On 17.04.2018 21:40, Daniel Kiper wrote >> The overriden memory may contain device memory (vga text mode e.g.), which >> leads to strange boot behaviour. > > Have you been able to take a look at memory allocator/relocator code why > this happened? for me it looks like, that either

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-17 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On April 17, 2018 3:40:11 PM EDT, Daniel Kiper wrote: >Hi Alexander, > >On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:07:29AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 06.04.2018 14:28, Daniel Kiper wrote: >> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher >wrote: >>

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-17 Thread Daniel Kiper
Hi Alexander, On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 12:07:29AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > On 06.04.2018 14:28, Daniel Kiper wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > > > >> Can you please have a look and check regarding what should/could be > >>

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-13 Thread Alexander Boettcher
Hello, On 06.04.2018 14:28, Daniel Kiper wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > >> Can you please have a look and check regarding what should/could be >> changed to get it upstream? We did not test the dynamic relocation part, > > Sure thing, please take

Re: Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-04-06 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Alexander Boettcher wrote: > Hello, > > our project uses various (micro)kernels booted via GRUB2 using the > Multiboot & Multiboot2 protocol. Some of the kernels have several ELF > segments which are not necessarily placed close together. > > When booting

Multiboot ELF segment handling patch

2018-03-29 Thread Alexander Boettcher
Hello, our project uses various (micro)kernels booted via GRUB2 using the Multiboot & Multiboot2 protocol. Some of the kernels have several ELF segments which are not necessarily placed close together. When booting such kernels with GRUB2 in BIOS legacy mode we observed that the screen shows