Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:11:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.org.au Subject: Re: userconfig data -> linker set -> ELF segment Message-ID: <199803111011.CAA22528@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 03:22:29 GMT." <199803110322.UAA09090@usr04.primenet.com>
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> > I was basically planning to look at distributing the userconfig device > > list as a linker set, to allow externally developed drivers to be > > added without having to edit a static list. I know how to do this > > now, but how easy is it to put it in a non-loaded segment later? > > This is hard. > > The problem is that you need to be able to agregate linker sets > at run time, not at link time. You're making things too difficult. 8) Use the preprocessor to swap between linker-set encoding (a.out) and whatever magic is required to park things in different ELF sections. (Actually, I recall being told that this was fairly hard to achieve, so perhaps it's not such a good idea?) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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