Re: More hpcboot memory/ELF loading errors?

Just a minute ago, I wrote:
> Rafal Boni wrote:
>> Folks:
>>     I've been having a lot of trouble getting hpcboot to correctly
>>     load/boot much of anything on my iPAQ, and the symptoms look very
>>     much like the bug Uwe fixed about 2 years ago... looks like I'm
>>     running out of memory in the currently allocated region(s) and
>>     some page is either leaked into or overwritten because it's been
>>     handed out more than once.
> 
> My latest attempt has tossed the guard pages out the window and made the 
> ELF symbol-loading machinery return better (read: more conservative) 
> estimates of amount of memory required to load the symbols.
> 
> The issue appears to be that while the symbol header, symbol table and 
> string table are all loaded in 3 separate passes, the size-estimation 
> code returned the size of all 3 items as a single datum, ignoring the 
> fact that each of those 3 components would need at least one page (and 
> maybe more) to store the contents in the 'load chain'.

In case anyone is itching to try it out, an ARM hpcboot binary with this 
fix (and a bunch of other, unrelated changes), can be had at:
	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/rafal/hpcboot.exe

--rafal