Re: [Etherboot-developers] Mknbi is the misbehaving when reloc'd

[Marc S. <el...@bu...>]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:07:59AM +1000, Ken Yap wrote:
> >I was wondering about that.  I was also wondering if there would be
> >any utility in changing mknbi to PIC, position independent code.  It
> >may be overkill since are likely to know where things are in memory.
> 
> If you know a way to generate PIC with gcc that doesn't have a large
> overhead in code size or relocation tables, or require a bulky runtime
> relocating loader, let us know.

Well...it make the mknbi loader at least 6732 bytes long.  I faked one
of the symbols, so there may be more data.  Is it possible to give the
loader 8K instead of 6K?  I haven't looked at etherboot, but I'd guess
it has a similar bloat of about...good grief...a 90% increase.

So we know that it is expensive.  Are we really that tight on memory?

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