[syslinux] Re: Patch to add Symbols/segments loader for mboot.c

Tim Deegan Tim.Deegan at cl.cam.ac.uk
Mon Jan 16 05:06:42 PST 2006


Hi Ram,

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:41:00AM -0800, Ram Yalamanchili wrote:
> The ones which are being loaded in my patch are those sections which
> have a VA of 0 (invalid) and thus not mapped to any program segment. If
> you look in the 2nd if() statement of the section loader code, you will
> see I don't load any section if it already has a VA. 

Ah!  Thinko on my part, I read "!=" as "==".

Yep, looks good to me, and doesn't break anything else that I was using
it for.  hpa, can this patch be included?  It's at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tjd21/tmp/shtab.patch . (I've tidied up the
layout a little and removed some compiler warnings from Ram's version).

Cheers, 

Tim.

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Tim Deegan                           (My opinions, not the University's)
Systems Research Group
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory




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