Re: [Etherboot-developers] mknbi-1.2-7rc2 released

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >I have a smallish problem.  We can talk more about it but essentially 
> >mkelf-linux fails if it wasn't loaded with the etherboot ``generic''
> >ELF loader.  It should be able to continue to work and just loose
> >some features if it is loaded by an unrecognized ELF loader.
> 
> Ok. There's probably some dependency I'll have to look into.

O.k. I just confirmed the problem still exists.  The assumption comes
is from first32.c demonstrated here:

#ifdef  FIRST32RM
int first(union infoblock *header, struct bootp_t *bootp)
#else
int first(struct ebinfo *eb, union infoblock *header, struct bootp_t *bootp)
#endif

And here:

        /* Sanity checks */
#ifdef  FIRST32ELF
        if (header->img.magic != ELF_MAGIC)
#else
        if (header->img.magic != TAG_MAGIC)
#endif
                quit();


As first is the entry point of the image, and as it assumes it is called
with a specific set of arguments and with an initial stack breaking that
those assumptions might be a little tricky.

Eric