On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:57:49PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> 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.
That's what this actually accomplishes, there are just a few caveats to consider, more on this shortly on the other thread in this patch series. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
