Re: mips: don't duplicate options section

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2002, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> 
> > Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> Linking a very complex non-IRIX MIPS ELF64 shared library, containing
> >> many object files with their own options sections, some of them having
> >> undergone ld -r, fails because not enough space was allocated in the
> >> program headers for the options section.
> 
> > What will be used on this non-IRIX platform to replace .MIPS.options?
> > Why is it good to do this differently?
> 
> It is not replaced, it's just packed together with other sections in
> the same segment, as opposed to being a separate segment right after
> the program header like IRIX requires.

I see.

> I confess I don't know whether
> this is actually a good idea.  I don't know of anything the kernel
> might do with .MIPS.options that might require (or even help) to keep
> it in a separate segment.

I guess it could use the Information in .MIPS.options for some patches
to circumvent hardware bugs and other setup like page sizes, and then
free this segment.


Thiemo