Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised)

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > .notes : {
> >     *(.note.*)
> >     . = ALIGN(4);
> >     LONG(0);
> >     LONG(0);
> >     LONG(0);
> > }
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> Oh, I suppose, but I never much liked putting data-definition into the
> linker script.

I think it should be sparsely used, but stuff like simple end markers is 
pretty much what it's good for.

The main reason I want to avoid adding another header field is that the 
header is a finite resource; one of the many poor decisions in its 
original design was using a 2-byte jump at the top, so address 0x281 is 
the end of the universe.

	-hpa

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