missing _estack

steven james pyro at linuxlabs.com
Sat Jan 11 11:55:01 CET 2003


Greetings,

I'm not up to speed on those boards, but _estack is normally defined in
the linker scripts (.ld files). It is used by the assembly code in
arch/i386/lib/c_start.S to set up the stack for the C code.

G'day,
sjames



On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 gnat at gnat.ca wrote:

> Hello,
> I've been trying to figure out how these things are setup. If I use one of the 
> sis5xx mainboard configs, I get an error stating that _estack is undefined. 
> Where is it supposed to be? Obviously, it has something to do with setting up a 
> stack. I just don't understand where it is supposed to come from. Since I'm 
> patterning my mainboard (sis530 based) on those as examples. This causes a 
> small problem. Can anyone help me?
> 
> 
> 

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