To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order
 explicit
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 06:49:17 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200602231514.03001.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Thu,
 23 Feb 2006 15:14:02 +0100")
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> 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

Andi it is more than that.  At least it was last I payed attention.
There are symbols like stext that various things depend on being early,
at least last time I looked.  So while it is doable it requires some
careful looking.

Eric
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