Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> writes:

Ok.  I just noticed another piece that we want to change for
greater compatibility.  We should make the virtual and the physical
addresses the same.  Then there is no danger of some loader getting
them mixed up.

I.e. Not:
  
> +.org 80
> +phdr:
> +	.int PT_LOAD					# p_type
> +	.int (SETUPSECTS+1)*512				# p_offset
> +	.int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR + __PAGE_OFFSET		# p_vaddr
> +	.int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR				# p_paddr
> +	.int SYSSIZE*16					# p_filesz
> +	.int 0						# p_memsz
> +	.int PF_R | PF_W | PF_X				# p_flags
> +	.int CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN			# p_align
> +e_phdr:
> +

but
> +.org 80
> +phdr:
> +	.int PT_LOAD					# p_type
> +	.int (SETUPSECTS+1)*512				# p_offset
> +	.int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR				# p_vaddr
> +	.int LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR				# p_paddr
> +	.int SYSSIZE*16					# p_filesz
> +	.int 0						# p_memsz
> +	.int PF_R | PF_W | PF_X				# p_flags
> +	.int CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN			# p_align
> +e_phdr:
> +
>  start2:
>  	movw	%cs, %ax
>  	movw	%ax, %ds
> @@ -78,11 +128,11 @@ die:


Eric
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