Re: [Xen-devel] is_loadable_phdr

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28/01/2010 19:55, "Brad Plant" <bplant@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm trying to get an understanding of why a segment has to be writeable or
> executable for xen to load it. Does anyone know why this is so?
> 
> Also, is it likely that this behaviour could be changed? My understanding is
> that it's perfectly valid to have an ELF kernel with read-only segments in it.
> Attempting to use an image with a read-only segment leads to the kernel
> failing to boot with weird and hard to debug crashes.

Yes, we can change that. Send a patch for it.

 -- Keir



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