From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 22:00:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20080208210004.GA12923@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080205190600.GB11613@elf.ucw.cz> <47AB975C.1010902@zytor.com> <20080208070419.GA4544@ucw.cz> <200802081723.16354.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200802081723.16354.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , kernel list , Linux-pm mailing list List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Fri 2008-02-08 17:23:15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 8 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > Hi, > > > > >I really need the entry point to be at offset 0, so > > > >that I can get > > > >pointers to my data. I could not figure out how to do > > > >it any other > > > >way. And if 0 is taken, I thought I'd put header at the > > > >end. > > > > > > > > > > Why not just put the structure at 0, and put pointers in > > > the structure to everything else you need? > > > > segments:offsets rear its ugly head here. I need %ds to point to my > > data, and the way to do it is copy it from %cs; that needs start to be > > at 0. > > Hm, why exactly is that necessay? It is not _neccessary_. Try to come up with another method that gets relocations right. I could not :-(. (Actually, putting table at the offset 0 and short jump at beggining of the table would probably do the trick. But that still keeps code at offset 0 :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html