[LinuxBIOS] support PIC and prototypes

[ron minnich]

I am confusing you, maybe.

stage0 is not pic. stage0 is non-pic. initram is pic. initram, which
is pic, needs to call stage0, which is not pic.

To add to the fun, stage0 does make one call to initram: it calls
initram's main.

On 8/29/07, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:

> Please don't use stage0 to tag the PIC code, use pic instead.
> stage0printk would become picprintk, or maybe pic_printk.

this implies to me that the printk itself is pic, which it is not. Another name?


> I would like that file to be called just pic.o and be unrelated to
> anything stage0 - except of course that stage0 calls the code in
> pic.o.

except that file IS stage0.o. It's stage0 with all the symbols
renamed. What do we call them?


> I think the method is great but I want to choose all filenames
> carefully so it is really clear what is going on.
>
> Btw - why couldn't everyone call the PIC functions?

stage0 is not pic. If we make it pic, it ballons. When gcc generates
PIC code, it still generates relative calls. Gcc is not tremendously
good at generating PIC, what it really creates is "PIC assuming you
use the GNU shared library techniques".

ron