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DateThu, 07 Feb 2008 23:40:47 -0800
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines
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


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