On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:06:04PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:49:43 -0700,
> "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org> wrote:
> >Microsoft drivers have an .INIT code section that is initialization
> >ccode that get's chunked after it's loaded. Their model allows
> >memory segments to be defined as DISCARDABLE, which tells the loader
> >to chunk them after they get loaded in portable executable format.
>
> The loader is insmod, which does all its own reloaction and loading.
> The problem is that ancillary tools like ksymoops, gdb, kdb and
> possibly others do not expect sections to be discarded after load.
> Adding the feature to insmod is fairly easy, fixing the ancillary tools
> to understand that some sections are discarded after load is a bit
> harder. Debugging is particularly messy, when an oops occurs how do we
> tell if the __init data been discarded yet or not?
>
> I have added this to my investigation list for modutils, ksymoops and
> kdb 2.5, no promises.
:-)
Jeff
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