Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org> writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >> The comment is just plain wrong. It assumes you're loading an ELF file, >> whereas in practice that is rarely true. >> >> This does explain why the poor ABI, though. A jump table at the >> beginning would have been a lot cleaner. > > Can you please have patch to update the comments and point to the API there ?
Long ago and far away. I wrote the 64bit entry code for a bzImage by putting an ELF header in the boot sector. That is what that comment referred to when it was written. Andrew had a problem on one of his test machines and so the patch to bootsector was dropped. Booting with a vmlinux file does (or at least should not) need this. ELF loaders will pick the entry point out from the ELF header. I don't know what has happened in the intervening time, or who if anyone has depended on that offset. The original intent an internal use hard code. Eric -- 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/
