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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 13:15:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Paul Saab <ps@mu.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with pxeboot and binutils-2.11
Cc: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>, net@FreeBSD.org,
	current@FreeBSD.org, Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>,
	David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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On 09-Aug-01 Paul Saab wrote:
> David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:12:32AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > > It appears that gas is now properly padding the end of the text 
>> > > section (and inserting the jmp and nops). This, in turn, misaligns 
>> > > the loader that is tacked onto the end of the pxeldr. I'm currently 
>> > > not setup to test pxeboot'ing but here's a patch that might fix it.
>> > 
>> > The disassembly looks right, I just don't have a means for testing it.
>> 
>> Oliver Hartmann tested Mark's patch and it seems to fix the problem.
>> Mark's going to look into committing and (hopefully) merging the
>> fix to -stable.
> 
> Yes.. This fixes the problem.  John's patch also works.

Mark's patch is less hokey than mine.  I've given him the goahead to commit
his.

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