Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, boot: Optimize the elf header handling.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/01/2012 10:09 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I am suspecting something similar.  At the moment I am trying
> to remember how to get early printk working in misc.c so I can
> poke around a bit more.
>
> The theory that I was working on, that used to be true, and
> seems to be true of everything except the percpu section is
> that objcopy just does the right thing when creating vmlinux.bin.
> vmlinux.bin being what we compress.
>
> I don't see anything obviously wrong with the headers of vmlinux.bin
> although we still unnecessarily have section headers in that file.

We leave the section headers in for the benefit of Xen IIRC.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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