linux-kernel - Re: Minimal linker script

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Message-ID: <4A0714B5.40402@zytor.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 May 2009 10:53:57 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	linux arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@....edu>
Subject: Re: Minimal linker script

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> Do you then say that i386 could allow us to use absolute symbols,
> and we could adjust in the code instead?
> 
> That would make the linker script nicer but with added
> complexity in the code..
> 

Correct.  The key, obviously, is to make sure we don't end up having to
adjust in multiple places all the time.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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