Re: 2.6.26-rc1 on x86: ld: warning: dot moved backwards before`.text'

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon May 12 2008 - 02:52:49 EST


On Sun 2008-05-11 23:22:52, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 11 of May 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > [H. Peter Anvin - Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:25:54AM -0700]
> > > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > >> Hi Peter,
> > >> actually I only doubt about exactly position of this headers - I mean
> > >> meguess it better should be _before_ "_end" not after. Since the others
> > >> script uses (acpi/wakeup_rm.S):
> > >> wakeup_code_start:
> > >> .incbin "arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.bin"
> > >> wakeup_code_end:
> > >> and kernel uses these wakeup_code_* marks to save/restore memory I think
> > >> it should be like
> > >> . = HEADER_OFFSET;
> > >> .header : {
> > >> ...
> > >> }
> > >> . = ALIGN(16);
> > >> _end = .;
> > >> /DISCARD/ ...
> > >
> > > Yes, I believe that's correct.
> > >
> > > -hpa
> > >
> >
> > Thanks for review, Peter, I'll cook a patch and wait for
> > Pavel's opinion ;-)
>
> I've tested the appended one. If that's what you mean, we'll ask Ingo to take
> it.

ACK... and thanks!
Pavel

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