From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932242AbZD0QD7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:03:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755900AbZD0QDs (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:03:48 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46125 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755553AbZD0QDr (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:03:47 -0400 Message-ID: <49F5D70F.6070309@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:02:23 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, sam@ravnborg.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu CC: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_*.lds References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.