Re: 2.6.26-rc1 on x86: ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text'

Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-05-11T18:29:22Z

[H. Peter Anvin - Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:25:54AM -0700]
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> actually I only doubt about exactly position of this headers - I mean
>> meguess it better should be _before_ "_end" not after. Since the others
>> script uses (acpi/wakeup_rm.S):
>> wakeup_code_start:
>> .incbin "arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.bin"
>> wakeup_code_end:
>> and kernel uses these wakeup_code_* marks to save/restore memory I think
>> it should be like
>> . = HEADER_OFFSET;
>> .header : {
>> ...
>> }
>> . = ALIGN(16);
>> _end = .;
>> /DISCARD/ ...
>
> Yes, I believe that's correct.
>
> -hpa
>

Thanks for review, Peter, I'll cook a patch and wait for
Pavel's opinion ;-)

- Cyrill -