[Milkymist-devel] uClinux/FDPIC loader

[Sébastien Bourdeauducq]

Hi,

Does anyone have experience with uClinux/FDPIC loaders?

The loader we use in Milkymist is merely crap, requiring the use of -Wl,-q to 
generate a special relocation section and then special options to strip in 
order to leave that relocation section in the final binary. The kernel loader 
then reads this section and relocates the binary itself (instead of having it 
done by the libc as it's supposed to be with normal FDPIC targets).

This makes compiling software difficult, it's slow, and it's kludgy. It also 
seems to cause problems with C++. Such a hack will probably never be accepted 
in the vanilla Linux kernel.

It would be nice if someone with experience with uClibc and FDPIC loaders on 
nommu targets could give us some help about this. It's probably easy and quick 
to make if you know in detail how FDPIC loaders work, but I don't.

Thanks,
Sébastien