Re: 2.6.26-rc1 on x86: ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text'

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>]

[H. Peter Anvin - Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:15:04AM -0700]
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> Should not it be something like
>> ---
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.lds.S 
>> b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.lds.S
>> index 22fab6c..cccf62d 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.lds.S
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.lds.S
>> @@ -12,11 +12,6 @@ ENTRY(_start)
>>   SECTIONS
>>  {
>> -	. = HEADER_OFFSET;
>> -	.header : {
>> -		 *(.header)
>> -	}
>> -
>>  	. = 0;
>>  	.text : {
>>  		 *(.text*)
>> @@ -53,6 +48,11 @@ SECTIONS
>>  	. = ALIGN(16);
>>  	_end = .;
>>  +	. = HEADER_OFFSET;
>> +	.header : {
>> +		 *(.header)
>> +	}
>> +
>>  	/DISCARD/ : {
>>  		*(.note*)
>>  	}
>> ---
>> 		- Cyrill -
>
> Yes.  This was the way I originally had it, then Pavel decided to move the 
> header to the end.
>
> 	-hpa
>

Hi Peter,

actually I only doubt about exactly position of this headers - I mean
meguess it better should be _before_ "_end" not after. Since the others
script uses (acpi/wakeup_rm.S):

	wakeup_code_start:
	.incbin	"arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.bin"
	wakeup_code_end:

and kernel uses these wakeup_code_* marks to save/restore memory I think
it should be like

	. = HEADER_OFFSET;
	.header : {
		...
	}
	. = ALIGN(16);
	_end = .;
	/DISCARD/ ...

		- Cyrill -
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