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

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Feb 23 2006 - 09:39:29 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
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


ok I'll look into this and see if the result is reasonable

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