Re: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 09:35:08 EST


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
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