Re: Location of init_task_union

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 05:21:12PM -0500, Bradley D. LaRonde wrote:

> > > I can easily move it to .data or .data.init_task like i386, but I'm
> > > wondering if there is some special reason why it is in .text on mips and
> > > .data on i386.
> >
> > Doesn't matter when it ends up, it only needs to be 8kb aligned which is
> > why we have to do such silly things.
> 
> i386 does it by putting it in it's own segment, then aligning that segment
> in the linker script.  Can we switch to that way?

Yes.  I already did this in my private source for another, MIPS64 related
reason.

  Ralf