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




[H. Peter Anvin - Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:25:54AM -0700]
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> 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/ ...
>
> Yes, I believe that's correct.
>
> 	-hpa
>

Thanks for review, Peter, I'll cook a patch and wait for
Pavel's opinion ;-)

		- Cyrill -
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