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

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

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 09:36:15AM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> 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?
> 

Nevermind.  I found something that describes what needs to be done.
It's way to much work for something of nominal value.