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visws: make startup_32 kernel entry point (3/13)

PATCH New Andrey Panin 1 participant 1 message Feb 14, 2003

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PATCH 1/1 visws: make startup_32 kernel entry point (3/13)

Hi.

This patch marks startup_32 (in head.S) as kernel entry point, visws kernel loader uses raw elf kernel images and entry point at stext causes jump to wrong address.

Please consider applying.

Best regards.

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arch/i386/Makefile +1 -1
diff -urN -X /usr/share/dontdiff linux-2.5.60.vanilla/arch/i386/Makefile linux-2.5.60/arch/i386/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 LDFLAGS		:= -m elf_i386
 OBJCOPYFLAGS	:= -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -e stext
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=
 LDFLAGS_BLOB	:= --format binary --oformat elf32-i386
 
 CFLAGS += -pipe
arch/i386/kernel/head.S +1 -1
diff -urN -X /usr/share/dontdiff linux-2.5.60.vanilla/arch/i386/kernel/head.S linux-2.5.60/arch/i386/kernel/head.S
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  *
  * On entry, %esi points to the real-mode code as a 32-bit pointer.
  */
-startup_32:
+ENTRY(startup_32)
 /*
  * Set segments to known values
  */
arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S +1 -1
diff -urN -X /usr/share/dontdiff linux-2.5.60.vanilla/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S linux-2.5.60/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	
 OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386", "elf32-i386")
 OUTPUT_ARCH(i386)
-ENTRY(_start)
+ENTRY(startup_32)
 jiffies = jiffies_64;
 SECTIONS
 {