Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 02:04:55 EST


Hi!

> >I really need the entry point to be at offset 0, so
> >that I can get
> >pointers to my data. I could not figure out how to do
> >it any other
> >way. And if 0 is taken, I thought I'd put header at the
> >end.
> >
>
> Why not just put the structure at 0, and put pointers in
> the structure to everything else you need?

segments:offsets rear its ugly head here. I need %ds to point to my
data, and the way to do it is copy it from %cs; that needs start to be
at 0.

If you can find a solution that does not need this (some
segment/offset arithmetics at beggining of wakeup?) we could use it,
but I was lost between relocations.

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