[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] v3: fix absolute calls from initram

[Corey Osgood]

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 <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net>

Acked-by: Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com>