| .section ".reset" | |
| .code16 | |
| .globl reset_vector | |
| reset_vector: | |
| .byte 0xe9 | |
| .int _start - ( . + 2 ) | |
| /* Note: The above jump is hand coded to work around bugs in binutils. | |
| * 5 byte are used for a 3 byte instruction. This works because x86 | |
| * is little endian and allows us to use supported 32bit relocations | |
| * instead of the weird 16 bit relocations that binutils does not | |
| * handle consistenly between versions because they are used so rarely. | |
| */ | |
| . = 0x8; | |
| .code32 | |
| jmp protected_start | |
| .previous |