From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:34:42 +0100 > But I never managed to really understand what the btfixup thing is all > about and has then been sidetracked by funnier stuff. It's recording relocations that get fixed up at boot time. The way it works is that each btfixup emits a reference to a symbol that will be unresolved. The btfixup tool under arch/sparc/boot/ scans the unlinked kernel image, generates dummy symbol definitions into a foo.s file so that the kernel can be linked, and builds the btfixup tables so the kernel can patch up these relocations at boot time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
