[LinuxBIOS] have a static initram improvements.

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Fri Jul 20 18:27:59 CEST 2007


On 20/07/07 09:18 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> Then, one step further: create a LAR file that is the symbol table for
> stage 0/1 that has been burned into FLASH. The mainboard has its
> vector table, and this links against the symbols in the lar file. That
> way, if you ONLY have a copy of the bios, and you need to create a new
> stage 2, the path is open to linking against the stage0/1 in flash,
> without requiring a rebuild of stage0/1.
> 
> Is this too crazy?

Frankly?  Yes.  I'm not super excited about re-inventing the wheel here.
I would much rather play the linking script games then come up with
something new.  ld scripts are not evil, if they are done right.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.






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