On Jul 30, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Kumar, > > [sorry for the slow reply] > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:49:04 -0500 (CDT) Kumar Gala > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Paul said you were looking into this issue as well. Wanted to >> post what I >> did on ppc32/e500 as a start for you to look at. I think the >> other ppc32 >> head*.S can follow the same pattern if we like this. However, >> wasn't sure >> how to do _ENTRY() for ppc64. > > What I have done so far is to put some peices of the asm code into > the .text.init.refok section (see the _INIT_STATIC macro in asm/ > ppc_asm.h > in the current kernel). I was hoping to separate some of the asm > into a > new file (init_64.S) that would contain this and other code in > the .init.text section. That is currently not working (ld crashed on > me :-)). > > Even if you create a .text.head, you will need to teach modpost > about it.
Modpost is already aware of .text.head. Its used on x86 and a few other archs today. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
