* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

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> I was thinking about this yesterday, and it seems to me that there are 
> two cleaner options here...
>
> - either we should put in the full machinery to be able to run C code 
> compiled with -fPIC/-fPIE before paging is enabled.  Unfortunately gcc 
> generates R_386_GOT32 relocations for external references even with 
> -fPIE, so we'll have to put in some code to adjust the GOT (easy 
> enough to do.)

i'd _love_ to have this approach instead of the assembly routines. While 
'constructing pagetables' might not look like a big deal in isolation - 
C is still 10 times more programmable than assembly. Pushing more of the 
early boot code into a sane, non-assembly environment will have positive 
long-term effects all across.

	Ingo
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