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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst index 5a6a8426cc97..60134ddf3db1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst @@ -1070,8 +1070,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): - The values of the above variables are expanded in arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile. 5) All object files are then linked and the resulting file vmlinux is located at the root of the obj tree. - The very first objects linked are listed in head-y, assigned by - arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile. + The very first objects linked are listed in scripts/head-object-list.txt. 6) Finally, the architecture-specific part does any required post processing and builds the final bootimage. - This includes building boot records @@ -1219,6 +1218,9 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): All object files for vmlinux. They are linked to vmlinux in the same order as listed in KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS. + The objects listed in scripts/head-object-list.txt are exceptions; + they are placed before the other objects. + KBUILD_VMLINUX_LIBS All .a "lib" files for vmlinux. KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS and @@ -1262,8 +1264,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): machinery is all architecture-independent. - head-y, core-y, libs-y, drivers-y - $(head-y) lists objects to be linked first in vmlinux. + core-y, libs-y, drivers-y $(libs-y) lists directories where a lib.a archive can be located. |