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Message-ID: <47309D98.8080003@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:00:08 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Mikael Petterson <mikpe@...uu.se>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised)
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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