On 08/02/2010 02:08 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/02/2010 01:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 08/02/2010 12:35 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> it seems I can not global variables in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
>>>
>>
>> I just looked at it, it's the fact that we don't relocate the GOT that
>> is causing problems.  It's relatively easy to fix: here is a patch, but
>> in grand Linus tradition it is completely untested.
>>
> 
> Untested indeed... here is one which doesn't clobber live registers.
> 

And of course I got the test backwards... in AT&T syntax, number
compares you!

	-hpa