Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:49:17 -0700 |
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:57, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> > (or at least >> > it shouldn't), but arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/head.S >> > seems to have the entry address hardcoded. Perhaps you can just change this >> > to pass in the right address? >> >> the issue is that the address will be a link time thing, which means >> lots of complexity. > > bzImage image should be only generated after vmlinux is done > and then the address should be available with a simple grep in System.map
Andi it is more than that. At least it was last I payed attention. There are symbols like stext that various things depend on being early, at least last time I looked. So while it is doable it requires some careful looking.
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