Re: Moving kernel_entry to LOADADDR

[Justin Carlson <justincarlson@cmu.edu>]

On Fri, 2001-10-19 at 11:11, Mike McDonald wrote:

>   Because a bare bones bootloader may not know anything about ELF. The
> simplest solution is to just stick a "jmp start_kernel" at LOADADDR
> right before the fill. Then the load address and the entry point are
> the same. Once the exception vectors get loaded, they'll overwrite the
> jmp, so no space is wasted and none of the LOADADDRs have to be
> changed.


This may be true, but grokking ELF far enough to find e_entry just a
matter of looking at a fixed offset into the kernel image.  Problems
that require bootloaders to be simpler than that are pretty rare...

-Justin