Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add support for OpenBSD

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Oct 2006, at 17:11, Keir Fraser wrote:

> On 17/10/06 17:02, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > I made the xen kernel buildable on OpenBSD.
> > > > The first patch touches the buildsystem.
> > > Why is elf_{i386,x86_64}_obsd needed? Is OpenBSD so very special  
> > > it needs
> > > its own linkage target architecture?
> > ld on OpenBSD complains that elf_i386 and elf_x86_64 are not  
> > supported.
> > It expects elf_i386_obsd or elf_x86_64_obsd respectively.
> Okay. I applied a modified form of your patch which puts common  
> definitions
> in config/StdGNU.mk.
>
> I applied your second patch, but not the third (SSP/ProPolice) one  
> as I
> don't understand why it's needed. If there's some extra magic in  
> OpenBSD's
> gcc, I hope there is a flag we can specify to turn it off for the  
> hypervisor
> itself.
It's enabled by default in OpenBSD's modified gcc-3.3.5, turn it off  
with CFLAGS+= -fno-stack-protector
-anil


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