linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v3 2/2] x86: more early console output from compressed/misc.c

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Message-ID: <4C5733CF.20100@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:08:31 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v3 2/2] x86: more early console output from	compressed/misc.c

On 08/02/2010 01:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/02/2010 12:35 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> it seems I can not global variables in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
>>
> 
> I just looked at it, it's the fact that we don't relocate the GOT that
> is causing problems.  It's relatively easy to fix: here is a patch, but
> in grand Linus tradition it is completely untested.
> 

Untested indeed... here is one which doesn't clobber live registers.

	-hpa


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