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From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] xsplice: Design document.
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:28:25 +0100
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On 09/16/2015 10:01 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> +### Generation of xSplice ELF payloads
> +
> +The design of that is not discussed in this design.
> +
> +The author of this design envisions objdump and objcopy along
> +with special GCC parameters (see above) to create .o.xsplice files
> +which can be used to splice an ELF with the new payload.
> +
> +The ksplice code can provide inspiration.
> +

As discussed off-list with Konrad, I'm going to get started with 
generation of the payload given a patch.

-- 
Ross Lagerwall