On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: >> We're missing one crucial piece which is necessary to get PIC to work: >> The linker. PIC code must be linked _after_ its location is known. > That sounds absurd as it would totally defeat the purpose of PIC. > > It's position independent code exactly _because_ you can't know the > position at link time.
actually, the GCC definiton of PIC is odd to say the least, as compared to what I used to call PIC. But I am afraid carl-daniel is right. PIC in the gcc sense really means "shared libraries" from what I can see, and does require a linker post-pass. Possibly on machines such as core 2, we should copy the (tiny) initram to CARBASE and run it there, and link it for CARBASE. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
