[PATCH 8/15] zImage: Cleanup and improve zImage entry point

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Mar 20 02:06:01 EST 2007


On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:38:59PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:21:35AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > One problem with that is that the wrapper currently only accepts one
> > platform .o file -- and presumably one isn't going to want to do all of
> > the platform code in assembly.
> 
> Um.. nobody does it yet, but I don't think there's actually any reason
> that $platformo can't be set to a list of multiple .o files.

Sorry, I was thinking about the default generation of a .o file from the
platform name.  Obviously, the wrapper script can add to platformo.

Still, I think it'd be better to only stick something other than crt0 at
the beginning if the platform explicitly asks for it.

-Scott



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