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From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/9] arm64: Fix efi kernel entry
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:55:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140826155505.GG16482@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873e73a998c198de69f6f01f92176be2b613c500.1408736066.git.geoff@infradead.org>

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:49:15PM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> The recent addition of EFI support has changed the way the arm64 kernel
> image is entered based on whether or not CONFIG_EFI is defined.  To support
> this conditional entry point add a new global symbol start to head.S that
> marks the entry, and change the the linker script ENTRY() command to define
> start as the kernel entry.

I don't yet understand what the problem is. The _text symbol is
currently defined in vmlinux.lds.S to be the beginning of the .head.text
section. Whether we have CONFIG_EFI or not, the entry point is the same.

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-26 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-22 19:49 [PATCH 0/9] arm64: minor fixups and enhancements Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/9] arm64: Fix efi kernel entry Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 15:55   ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-08-26 16:19     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-08-26 18:42       ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 7/9] arm64: Add atomic macros to assembler.h Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:05   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 19:40     ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27  8:25       ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 2/9] arm64: Fix INVALID_HWID definition Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 15:57   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 18:18     ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27  8:21       ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 16:31   ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-26 17:38     ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 5/9] arm64: Fix include header order in vmlinux.lds.S Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:27   ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-26 19:27     ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27  8:24       ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-29 21:53         ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 3/9] arm64: Remove unneeded extern keyword Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:11   ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 4/9] arm64: Remove unused variable in head.S Geoff Levand
2014-08-27  8:40   ` Will Deacon
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 6/9] arm64: Add new routine local_disable Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:04   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 16:23     ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 9/9] arm64: Add new cpu-return-addr device tree binding Geoff Levand
2014-08-27  8:30   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-29 21:45     ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 8/9] arm64: Add missing AT() macros to vmlinux.lds.S Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:08   ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 19:33     ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27  6:53       ` AKASHI Takahiro

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