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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] mkelf32: Correct sh_link

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] mkelf32: Correct sh_link
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:36:05 +0000
Cc: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:21:35PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:

> On 3/1/07 15:38, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Would you accept a patch, that makes XEN bootable as an ELF image with
> > ELF symbol-name and string tables? If yes, then I will work on this.
> 
> What we have now works and produces a reasonably compressed symbol table. I
> don't see any value in changing it.

It seems like it would simplify things. And it would certainly help us
as we want to ship the binary with (compressed) debug info, which is
tricky right now due to this unusual behaviour...

regards
john

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