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To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 Boot enhancements, pic 16 4/9
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Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> writes:

> Hello!
> 
> > The fact that you can't treat the generated .o as a normal object
> > is simply a maintenance nightmare.
> 
> Why? You can easily convert it to a normal absolute .o file by objcopy.
> 
> Also, I think you could do the same in the linker script.

Show me a linker script that can link together bootsect.o and bsetup.o.

Eric
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