On 04.12.2007 19:40, Corey Osgood wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> Absolute calls from initram were only working from the file which had >> _MAINOBJECT #defined. Calls from all other files ended up in nirvana >> because the compiler was not able to calculate the address of the >> wrapper for the absolute call. The linker tried, but failed miserably. >> Use the -combine flag and compile all of initram at once. This enables >> GCC to calculate the address of the abscall wrapper, resulting in >> working code. >> >> Segher Boessenkool thinks the patched code works only by accident >> because GCC has no way to specify generation of XIP code. According to >> him, future GCC versions or other circumstances may break the code. >> >> While this patch makes code work for now, it does NOT check whether the >> generated code tries to write to memory outside the stack (general >> writable data). That will of course fail, but I hope porters are smart >> enough to avoid that. >> >> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > Acked-by: Corey Osgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
Thanks, r537. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
