* Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The x86 boot image generation tool assign a default value to startup_64 > and subsequently parses the actual value from zoffset.h but it never > actually uses the value anywhere. So remove this code. > > This change has no impact on the resulting bzImage binary. > > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > arch/x86/boot/Makefile | 2 +- > arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c | 3 --- > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) Note that this patch conflicted with a recent upstream cleanup commit: e78d334a5470 ("x86/boot: Mark global variables as static") It was trivial to resolve, but please double-check the result once I push out the new tip:x86/boot tree. Thanks, Ingo