Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-08T07:40:47Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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.
>
> If you can find a solution that does not need this (some
> segment/offset arithmetics at beggining of wakeup?) we could use it,
> but I was lost between relocations.
>

Let me look at it in the morning. Got a specific pointer?

-hpa