History log of /haiku/src/system/boot/loader/elf.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# b6f76ebe 09-Feb-2017 Augustin Cavalier <waddlesplash@gmail.com>

s/OpenBeOS License/MIT License/ universally, as they're the same thing.

Fixes #8681.


# ccadfaee 22-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Changed the boot ELF code to use templates and added ELF64 support.

The actual implementation of the ELF loading methods have been put into
an ELFLoader template class that takes a single template parameter, which
is a structure containing all the necessary ELF typedefs. It's a bit
verbose, but I thought it was a neater solution than using a bunch of
standalone functions with a huge number of template parameters. There is
no change to code outside of elf.cpp, the ELF32/ELF64 differences are
handled internally.


# f1244978 22-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Added an ELF64 version of preloaded_image.

* There is now 2 structures, preloaded_elf32_image and preloaded_elf64_image,
which both inherit from preloaded_image.
* For now I've just hardcoded in use of preloaded_elf32_image, but the
bootloader ELF code will shortly be converted to use templates which use
the appropriate structure. The kernel will be changed later when I add
ELF64 support to it.
* All kernel_args data is now compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit kernels.


# 5e972c0f 15-Dec-2009 Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@gmail.com>

Implemented TODO about not loading symbols at boot.
This saves ~0.5s of boot time here, but I suspect it might be better for CD.
Enabled loadSymbols in kernel settings so the behavior should be the same as before this change.


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# 957a1b17 30-Dec-2005 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Introduced new build system variables
{HAIKU,HOST,TARGET}_KERNEL_PIC_{CC,LINK}FLAGS which define the
compiler/linker flags specifying the kind of position independence
the kernel shall have. For x86 we had and still have -fno-pic, but the
PPC kernel has -fPIE (position independent executable) now, as we
need to relocate it.
* The boot loader relocates the kernel now. Mostly copied the relocation
code from the kernel ELF loader. Almost completely rewrote the PPC
specific relocation code, though. It's more correct and more complete now
(some things are still missing though).
* Added boot platform awareness to the kernel. Moved the generic
Open Firmware code (openfirmware.c/h) from the boot loader to the kernel.
* The kernel PPC serial debug output is sent to the console for the time
being.
* The PPC boot loader counts the CPUs now and allocates the kernel stacks
(made OF device iteration a bit more flexible on the way -- the search
can be restricted to subtree). Furthermore we really enter the kernel...
(Yay! :-) ... and crash in the first dprintf() (in the atomic_set()
called by acquire_spinlock()). kprintf() works, though.



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# 5af32e75 13-Apr-2005 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Renamed src/kernel to src/system.


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# ccadfaeeb577eb5f129adcc1441b92aaf9f5e443 22-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Changed the boot ELF code to use templates and added ELF64 support.

The actual implementation of the ELF loading methods have been put into
an ELFLoader template class that takes a single template parameter, which
is a structure containing all the necessary ELF typedefs. It's a bit
verbose, but I thought it was a neater solution than using a bunch of
standalone functions with a huge number of template parameters. There is
no change to code outside of elf.cpp, the ELF32/ELF64 differences are
handled internally.


# f1244978152350f9cc010e766d09c2e9ad34dfce 22-Jun-2012 Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>

Added an ELF64 version of preloaded_image.

* There is now 2 structures, preloaded_elf32_image and preloaded_elf64_image,
which both inherit from preloaded_image.
* For now I've just hardcoded in use of preloaded_elf32_image, but the
bootloader ELF code will shortly be converted to use templates which use
the appropriate structure. The kernel will be changed later when I add
ELF64 support to it.
* All kernel_args data is now compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit kernels.


# 5e972c0f3d2d525d5967f21960f7cf9ebfc6ff15 15-Dec-2009 Fredrik Holmqvist <fredrik.holmqvist@gmail.com>

Implemented TODO about not loading symbols at boot.
This saves ~0.5s of boot time here, but I suspect it might be better for CD.
Enabled loadSymbols in kernel settings so the behavior should be the same as before this change.


git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@34666 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 957a1b17eb9d13d6dbf164145e82997e16742549 30-Dec-2005 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@gmx.de>

* Introduced new build system variables
{HAIKU,HOST,TARGET}_KERNEL_PIC_{CC,LINK}FLAGS which define the
compiler/linker flags specifying the kind of position independence
the kernel shall have. For x86 we had and still have -fno-pic, but the
PPC kernel has -fPIE (position independent executable) now, as we
need to relocate it.
* The boot loader relocates the kernel now. Mostly copied the relocation
code from the kernel ELF loader. Almost completely rewrote the PPC
specific relocation code, though. It's more correct and more complete now
(some things are still missing though).
* Added boot platform awareness to the kernel. Moved the generic
Open Firmware code (openfirmware.c/h) from the boot loader to the kernel.
* The kernel PPC serial debug output is sent to the console for the time
being.
* The PPC boot loader counts the CPUs now and allocates the kernel stacks
(made OF device iteration a bit more flexible on the way -- the search
can be restricted to subtree). Furthermore we really enter the kernel...
(Yay! :-) ... and crash in the first dprintf() (in the atomic_set()
called by acquire_spinlock()). kprintf() works, though.



git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@15756 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96


# 5af32e752606778be5dd7379f319fe43cb3f6b8c 13-Apr-2005 Axel Dörfler <axeld@pinc-software.de>

Renamed src/kernel to src/system.


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