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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:40:24 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit
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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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