Hi!

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> > > > segments:offsets rear its ugly head here. I need %ds to point to my
> > > > data, and the way to do it is copy it from %cs; that needs start to be
> > > > at 0.
> > > 
> > > Hm, why exactly is that necessay?
> > 
> > It is not _neccessary_. Try to come up with another method that gets
> > relocations right. I could not :-(.
> > 
> > (Actually, putting table at the offset 0 and short jump at beggining
> > of the table would probably do the trick. But that still keeps code at
> > offset 0 :-).
> 
> Pavel, can you explain in greater detail exactly what you need?

I do not think I need anything. I'm just explaining why data need to
go at nonzero offset. Nothing to see here, move on ;-).

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> It sounds like you are running in real mode with code stored at some 
> (unknown?) location in memory.  The BIOS calls this code with IP=0 and 
> CS=<something>, which apparently doesn't fit your requirements.

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> So just what are your requirements?  The only possibilities I can think 
> of are:
> 
> 	Code stored at a particular location in memory;
> 
> 	CS, IP, etc. initialized to some particular values.
> 
> What am I missing?

See arch/x86/kernel/acpi/realmode/wakeup.S (the version that was sent
to the list). No problem there, but table stored at nonzero
offset. Short jump at the beggining of table would fix it (ugly).

									Pavel
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