You can get more information from manual of ld by "info ld", the "Scripts" part is short and tell much. Roy Huang -----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Om Sent: 2004年10月10日 5:59 To: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: where is __setup_start? while going through the code of parse_options() (init/main.c) I found it is calling checksetup(). This function is using struct kernel_param *p; p = &__setup_start ; I who creates __setup_start? I saw in arch/i386/vmlinux.lds (linker script) the following __setup_start = .; .setup.init : { *(.setup.init) } __setup_end = .; I coudl not make much out of this. Any pointers/explanations? Regards, om. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
