On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 11:33:51AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > It is my regret that I haven't had a chance to pay more attention to the > kexec related issues lately. I am in the process of working down > the size of my todo list but for things seem to keep having additional > corner cases that crop up. > > As I recall last time I worked on a relocatable kernel I had the basic > work done and then ran out of time before I could merge it. > > I do believe in using bzImage but I also believe in using a standard > format in a standard way if at all possible instead of renting the wheel. > So since bzImage cannot express relocation I prefer ELF. That said > my work makes bzImage a valid dynamic ELF executable. :) > > What I do have time to do is post the code I worked on. If nothing > else it should be a good source of ideas. > > The code should be available shortly at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-reloc.git
Thanks, much apprecitaed. Though I have only got as far as checking it out. > Hopefully after OLS I will have a few more minutes to follow up on this. Magnus and I will also be in Ottawa all next week, hopefully we have a chance to meet. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
