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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:03:17 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <ps@mu.org>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Peek <mark@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.org, net@FreeBSD.org, Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
Subject:   Re: Problem with pxeboot and binutils-2.11
Message-ID:  <20010809120317.A2234@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010809195514.A57009@walton.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:55:14PM %2B0100
References:  <p05100306b7986a294bcd@[207.76.207.129]> <XFMail.010809111232.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010809195514.A57009@walton.maths.tcd.ie>

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David Malone (dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:12:32AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > It appears that gas is now properly padding the end of the text 
> > > section (and inserting the jmp and nops). This, in turn, misaligns 
> > > the loader that is tacked onto the end of the pxeldr. I'm currently 
> > > not setup to test pxeboot'ing but here's a patch that might fix it.
> > 
> > The disassembly looks right, I just don't have a means for testing it.
> 
> Oliver Hartmann tested Mark's patch and it seems to fix the problem.
> Mark's going to look into committing and (hopefully) merging the
> fix to -stable.

Yes.. This fixes the problem.  John's patch also works.

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