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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2008-02-08 17:23:15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, 8 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > 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.
> > Hm, why exactly is that necessay?
>
> It is not _neccessary_. Try to come up with another method that gets
> relocations right. I could not :-(.
>
> (Actually, putting table at the offset 0 and short jump at beggining
> of the table would probably do the trick. But that still keeps code at
> offset 0 :-).
> 									Pavel

Why not just put a pointer to the start of the code in the table, and 
make an indirect call to it?

Where is this code?

	-hpa
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