Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755600AbZCJUhT (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:37:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753955AbZCJUhF (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:37:05 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59878 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753154AbZCJUhE (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:37:04 -0400 Message-ID: <49B6CB84.8060404@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:20:20 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Sam Ravnborg , Yinghai Lu , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Absolute symbols in vmlinux_64.lds.S References: <49B5AD6A.2020101@goop.org> <49B5C12B.1020108@kernel.org> <20090310053721.GA25977@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 16 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I have no complaint with that. I believe the symbols are absolute > simply because they were originally coded that way and the relocatable > kernel work on x86_64 didn't need them to change. > I have a vague memory of a bug in the x86-64 ld. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/