Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86 boot: Jump to the entry point address in the elf header.

2012-07-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
And Peter no rush on these. I have just finished testing and I am pushing the changes out before I forget them. Moving the Elf loader earlier to compile time makes the code a lot more robust. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

[PATCH 1/4] x86 boot: Jump to the entry point address in the elf header.

2012-07-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Since we have the kernel's entry point stored in the ELF header use it, and stop hardcoding the value. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S |2 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S |2 +- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c| 16 +--- 3