On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
