On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:44PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 00:37, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > This patch adds generic ELF loading infrastructure for both 32-bit and > > 64-bit ELF. It provides an "iterate" function for program headers, and a > > "load" function for convenience. > > The idea is very good. But I don't like that loaded areas are always > allocated > from the heap. GRUB has a staging area for OS images on i386-pc, and I prefer > to load an image directly instead of consuming the heap. Two points for ia64: * the area must be allocated from EFI. * we need to support relocation: loading the ELF file with an offset (this feature can be on/off/forced).
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