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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Absolute symbols in vmlinux_64.lds.S
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:20:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B6CB84.8060404@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1bpsa6i72.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> I have no complaint with that.  I believe the symbols are absolute
> simply because they were originally coded that way and the relocatable
> kernel work on x86_64 didn't need them to change.
> 

I have a vague memory of a bug in the x86-64 ld.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-10 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-09 23:59 Absolute symbols in vmlinux_64.lds.S Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-10  1:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-10  5:37   ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-03-10  5:49     ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-10 20:20       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-10 21:25         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-03-10 22:26           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-10  5:57     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-10 11:24       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-03-10  1:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-10  4:37 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-03-10  5:32 ` Yinghai Lu

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