Re: [GIT PULL] x86 setup: correct booting on 486 (revised)

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> .notes : {
>>     *(.note.*)
>>     . = ALIGN(4);
>>     LONG(0);
>>     LONG(0);
>>     LONG(0);
>> }
>>
>> Am I missing something?
> 
> Oh, I suppose, but I never much liked putting data-definition into the
> linker script.
> 

I think it should be sparsely used, but stuff like simple end markers is 
pretty much what it's good for.

The main reason I want to avoid adding another header field is that the 
header is a finite resource; one of the many poor decisions in its 
original design was using a 2-byte jump at the top, so address 0x281 is 
the end of the universe.

	-hpa