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