svn commit: r180431 - in head/sys: kern sys

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:35:35AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:35 AM, David E. O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Author: obrien
> > Date: Thu Jul 10 16:35:57 2008
> > New Revision: 180431
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/180431
> >
> > Log:
> >  Allow 'elf_file_t' to be used in a wider scope.
> >
> > Modified:
> >  head/sys/kern/link_elf.c
> >  head/sys/sys/link_elf.h
> 
> This really was intentional.  elf_file_t was supposed to be opaque and
> changeable.  What do you need this for?

Juniper needs to be able to call functions in the loadable modules before
the modules are actually linked into the kernel. This will be used to
call platform specific initialization functions early in the bootup
process.  Will also need un-static link_elf_preload_parse_symbols,
parse_dynamic, symbol_name, link_elf_lookup_symbol,
link_elf_symbol_values.

-- 
-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)