Re: Patch to make the head.S-must-be-first-in-vmlinux order explicit

[Arjan van de Ven]

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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