On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:45:58PM +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > Hi all, > > Here comes a working snapshot of some relocation code that I've been > hacking on lately. I've only tested the code in qemu-system-i386, but > x86_64 and other architectures may work too. > > The attached kexec-tool patches extends the tool to support relocation > of elf binaries, ie "kdump -p" now relocates the vmlinux file to fit > whatever physical memory area that the user has reserved. The Linux > kernel needs to be patched to include relocation information, and an > early version of such a patch is attached.
Doing relocation in user space and then loading the executable looks interesting. This reduces work in kernel and most of the work is moved to user space making life easy in terms of maintenance. :-) I will review the patches to get into details and get back. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
