On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 08:44:43AM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
A new option is added to the relocs tool called '--realmode'.
This option causes the generation of 16-bit segment relocations
and 32-bit linear relocations for the real-mode code. When
the real-mode code is moved to the low-memory during kernel
initialization, these relocation entries can be used to
relocate the code properly.
In the assembly code 16-bit segment relocations must be relative
to the 'real_mode_seg' absolute symbol. Linear relocations must be
relative to a symbol prefixed with 'pa_'.
16-bit segment relocation is used to load cs:ip in 16-bit code.
Linear relocations are used in the 32-bit code for relocatable
data references. They are declared in the linker script of the
real-mode code.
The relocs tool is moved to arch/x86/tools/relocs.c, and added new
target archscripts that can be used to build scripts needed building
an architecture. be compiled before building the arch/x86 tree.
[ hpa: accelerating this because it detects invalid absolute
relocations, a serious bug in binutils 2.22.52.0.x which currently
produces bad kernels. ]
[ jsakkine: pulled tools/include/tools/le_byteshift.h in order
to make this patch compile in 3.3 ]
Nope, your patch still doesn't apply, are you sure you sent me the
updated one? It fails with:
patching file arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
Hunk #1 succeeded at 40 (offset 1 line).
patching file arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
File arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c is not empty after patch, as expected
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- rejects in file arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c
when applying it to the 3.3-stable queue.
What did you generate it against?
thanks,
greg k-h