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author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +0100 |
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committer | Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org> | 2006-12-07 02:14:04 +0100 |
commit | 968de4f02621db35b8ae5239c8cfc6664fb872d8 (patch) | |
tree | 9388da7f18f9511e1bbfeaf934cba8dbc696e9f4 /block | |
parent | fd593d12770d4a0d1ff095d44b96436c18479ee8 (diff) |
[PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel support
This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is
selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below
1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and
modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main
kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable
with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code.
A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned
to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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