1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel.ld b/kernel.ld
index a778fc4..e24c860 100644
--- a/kernel.ld
+++ b/kernel.ld
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ SECTIONS
 	/* Adjust the address for the data segment to the next page */
 	. = ALIGN(0x1000);
 
+	/* Conventionally, Unix linkers provide pseudo-symbols
+	 * etext, edata, and end, at the end of the text, data, and bss.
+	 * For the kernel mapping, we need the address at the beginning
+	 * of the data section, but that's not one of the conventional
+	 * symbols, because the convention started before there was a
+	 * read-only rodata section between text and data. */
+	PROVIDE(data = .);
+
 	/* The data segment */
 	.data : {
 		*(.data)