Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:57:49 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC v1 5/8] x86/init: move ebda reservations into linker table |
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > On 12/17/15 12:48, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> I'm entirely ignorant of anything going on in gPXE/iPXE. >> >> Can you explain what a linker table *does*? It looks like all you've >> done in this patch is to move code around. What actually happens? >> > > A linker table is a data structure that is stitched together from items > in multiple object files. > > We already have a *bunch* of linker tables in Linux, mostly the init > tables, but they are all built in an ad hoc manner which requires linker > script modifications, which are of course per architecture. > > My desire would be to make a general linker table facility so that a new > linker table can be implemented by changing C code only.
Sounds good to me.
--Andy
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