[parisc-linux] booting problems

Jason Eckhardt jason@equator.com
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:49:30 -0700 (PDT)


> I think you're right.  I'm sure now that the byte order isn't a problem,
> because my header and Jason's IPL work fine.
>
> > Jason's
> > link options, "-R 0 -N", specified a text origin of 0 and data following
> > the text.  I think the default for ELF is to place the text at 0x1000 and
> > data at 0x40000000.  The gnu ld equivalent for "-R 0" would appear to
> > be "-Ttext 0".  I am not sure there is a direct equivalent for "-N".
> > Maybe, you could use "-Tdata" to set the data location.  Maps might be
> > useful to sort out what is going on.  
>
> Definitely.  This should be the next step in sorting this out.
>

  The bootstrap definately will not work with default data at 0x40000000.
  The HPMC that is occurring is undoubtedly because the data section is there.