[parisc-linux] Today's boot experience on a 735
John David Anglin
dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:34:47 -0500 (EST)
> > you know why the DLT section
> > disappeared when I used the sort key of 255 for AFTERDLT? Although
> > I haven't tried it, it may not be possible to create an object file with
> > both DLT and AFTERDLT sections.
> Not really. I do know that we had major problems with pxdb (post-link
> processor
> on HPs) mysteriously removing subspaces with sort keys of 255 in the past.
I did a little testing with your second suggestion. What happens
is DLT is empty except for the one symbol that I created in it. The linker
always goes last and it seems to dump the common symbols into the last
section with sort key 255. I think DLT was deleted because it was
empty.
Is there a solution that doesn't rely on this obscure linker behaviour?
I think that if gas were modified to allocate common symbols in a special
section, then we wouldn't have this problem. However, I think this would
require that common symbols would always have to be fixed in size. While
this is normal practice in C, the assembler would not work with fortran
where it is normal practice to have common blocks of varying size.
Dave
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With advice from The Puffin Group, HP has released documentation on basic
bootup sequences, including IMM layout, OS requirements for PDC, PDC
itself for both PARISC 1.1 and 2.0, version numbering and IODC. As well,
we have details of what's in what hardware from 1997 backwards.
This is solid proof that HP is behind this port, and I think this gives
our project an excellent start. We now have the docs necessary to get a
basic kernel starting, including boot sequences and console interaction.
The easiest way to get to this documentation is to go to the Available
Resources section at http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ .
Many thanks to everyone at HP who made this possible.
- Alex
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