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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:57:17 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Navdeep Parhar <np@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd64 kernel modules: mapping sections to addresses
Message-ID:  <4C1F8BDD.9010408@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201006211143.26459.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <4C1F798C.7010204@freebsd.org> <201006211143.26459.jhb@freebsd.org>

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on 21/06/2010 18:43 John Baldwin said the following:
> np@ has a patch to gdb to fix this for kgdb.  I haven't committed it as it 
> patched gdb internals and wasn't in a kgdb-specific place, but I'm not sure of 
> a better way to fix kgdb.

Oh, yes, section mapping is done in common gdb code.
Perhaps kld.c shouldn't call build_section_table, but directly call
bfd_map_over_sections with a custom variant of add_to_section_table?
Can you please share the patch?

Still, what about a small tool, elf(3)-base porgram or objdump+objcopy shell
script, that would set section addresses in amd64 .ko (relocatable object file)
similarly to how they are set in i386 .ko (full-blown DSO)?
Or is this too much useless hassle?

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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