[PROPOSAL] extended payload handling

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Wed Jun 9 22:58:00 CEST 2004


This is a reply to myself.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:09:05AM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> So, couldn't an __init tag be created (a la linux) that marks functions to
> be run prior to the bootloader.  With this feature, modules could then be
> created entirely separate from the linuxbios core that just define a single
> __init entry point.  A simple post-build script could then collect all the
> user's modules, scan them for __init functions, create a stub function that
> executes the __init functions, and then link the whole mess into the final
> linuxbios target..

Sorry, I meant s/__init/module_init/



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