Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:54:19 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@gehicks.dyndns.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build write_mfs_in_kernel.c Message-ID: <5327CDCB-9867-11D6-9B14-0030657B5F1E@gehicks.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020716012824.18C253811@overcee.wemm.org>
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On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Yes, it is far far better to use objcopy --add-section, and then use > &__start_<section> and &__stop_<section> symbols to find where it ended > up. > > I've been doing it with a slightly different operation but yes it seems to be a better way than jumping in after linking and patching up the kernel image. Even if one is concerned about toolchain portability something like this exists for every other (reasonable) toolchain I can think of. I've hacked up an example of how to do all this and tested it extensively. Let me know if you'd like copy of it. Cheers, Jerry Hicks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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