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Message-ID: <87a5b0800807110332y65ea8c15g2feaa8806b1f1d85@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:32:01 +0100
From: "Will Newton" <will.newton@...il.com>
To: "Luke -Jr" <luke@...hjr.org>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel_entry up front
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Luke -Jr <luke@...hjr.org> wrote:
> I need to get kernel_entry to the lowest memory region in the binary. This is
> because a platform I am porting to does not support ELF, and always begins
> execution at the first word of the firmware image. Alternatively, if there is
> a simpler way to prepend the image with a jump to the kernel_entry symbol,
> that could work as well.
The easiest way to do this is to put your entry point in a named
section (for example .text.head) then edit vmlinux.lds.S to put that
section at the correct place in your kernel image.
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