PROBLEM:  (QAR 72957)    (Patch ID: OSF440-139)
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The problem is that any kernel that is larger than 4 MB and linked with
the old linker will have the etext and _etext symbols pointing to the wrong
place.  To see this problem:

        odump -hv /vmunix

This gives you output such as the following:


                        ***SECTION HEADER***
        Name             Paddr               Vaddr               Size
                         Scnptr              Relptr              Lnnoptr
                        Nreloc              Nlnno               Flags

/vmunix:
        .text     0xfffffc0000230000  0xfffffc0000230000 0x0000000000505160
                  0x0000000000000270  0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                             0                   0        REG, TEXT
 
        .data     0xfffffc000075c770  0xfffffc000075c770 0x00000000000fe420
                  0x000000000052c9e0  0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                             0                   0        REG, DATA
        .rdata    0xfffffc0000758bb0  0xfffffc0000758bb0 0x0000000000003bc0 
                  0x0000000000528e20  0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                             0                   0        REG, RDATA
        .rconst   0xfffffc0000735160  0xfffffc0000735160 0x0000000000023a50
                  0x00000000005053d0  0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000
                             0                   0        REG, RCONST
 
        (........etc....)

If you add the Size of the .text section to the Vaddr of the .text section,
this value should be where etext and _etext point.  The preceding example
produces the following values:

0xfffffc0000230000      +       0x0000000000505160 = 0xfffffc0000735160
(vaddr)                 +       (Size)             = (etext)

You could then use the following command to look at the symbol in your
vmunix kernel:

        nm -x /vmunix | grep _etext

You might get output such as this:

_etext                           | 0xfffffc0000740250 | T | 0x00000000000008

Note that the address 0xfffffc0000740250 is in the middle of .rconst,
instead of the expected 0xfffffc0000735160.

PROBLEM: (QAR 74845, 74845, 70308, 73919) (Patch ID: OSF440-230, OSF440-231)

An NHD2 installation will modify /usr/ccs/lib/cmplrs/cc/ld (system
linker) and the /osf_boot file.  This patch provides the same update
to the linker and osf_boot file that the NHD2 installation provides.
It is being delivered here so that an installation of this patch kit
does not undo the linker and osf_boot changes supplied with the NHD2
installation.