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Re: [Xen-devel] _text vs _start

To: "Keir Fraser" <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] _text vs _start
From: "Magnus Damm" <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:09:49 +0900
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On 1/4/07, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is an unnecessary disagreement among architectures over what symbols
should be used to mark section and image boundaries. We could reasonably
agree on at least _start/_end and _stext/_etext I think. This would allow
functions like is_kernel_text() to become generic, and make it obvious which
labels kexec should be using.

I was about to suggest to move the prototypes to a generic header file
while at it, but it seems like that someone already done that...
Thanks!

/ magnus

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