* Re: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds
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@ 2009-04-27 16:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
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From: H. Peter Anvin @ 2009-04-27 16:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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tip-bot for Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Also, notice the comment in the unified vmlinux.lds.S talks about
> "head_64" and "startup_32" which is an odd and incorrect mix, but that was
> actually what the old 64-bit only lds file had, so the confusion isn't
> new, and now that mixing is arguably more accurate thanks to the
> vmlinux.lds.S file being shared between the two cases ;)
>
It's correct, IIRC; the 64-bit code has startup_32 and startup_64, since
it is entered in 32-bit mode; startup_32 marks the entrypoint in the
beginning of the file.
hpa
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