Re: [PATCH v2 08/15] x86/boot: Drop references to startup_64

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The x86 boot image generation tool assign a default value to startup_64
> and subsequently parses the actual value from zoffset.h but it never
> actually uses the value anywhere. So remove this code.
> 
> This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile      | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c | 3 ---
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

Note that this patch conflicted with a recent upstream cleanup commit:

   e78d334a5470 ("x86/boot: Mark global variables as static")

It was trivial to resolve, but please double-check the result once I push 
out the new tip:x86/boot tree.

Thanks,

	Ingo