Re: MULTIBOOT: size & start of loaded kernel?

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Tuesday 06 April 2004 06:57, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> Is there any way, when in a Multiboot kernel, to determine the load
> address and length of the loaded kernel code? The Multiboot spec says
> the former is "anywhere the loader sees fit", and the latter is
> obviously kernel-specific.

Where is "anywhere the loader sees fit" in the spec? Multiboot-compliant 
boot loaders must load a kernel at the location the kernel specifies in 
its Multiboot header.

> I have a feeling this may be possible via 
> the ELF symbol table (using _start) but I don't know the ELF format
> well enough to get from the section header (which is provided) to the
> symbol table. Is there an easier way? I'm looking to make sure that
> memory is not allocated from the middle of the kernel.

_start is the easiest.

Okuji