Re: 2.3.99-3 axp combo patch

[Nikita Schmidt <cetus snowball ucd ie>]

On Thursday, 30 Mar, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> It's even finer to have the linker place them so that the only thing
> we need think about when relocating the kernel is the offset used in
> vmlinux.lds.
> 

True.  The question remains how loaders are supposed to get the addresses
they need if the kernel image is stripped.  We could perhaps make a new
non-loadable (.bss-like) section and call it, say, .params or .args.  This
way the size of the arguments area will also be automatically dealt with.

Nikita