On 8/1/06, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem: > > We can't always run the kernel at 1MB or 2MB, and so people who need > different addresses must build multiple kernels. The bzImage format > can't even represent loading a kernel at other than it's default address. > With kexec on panic now starting to be used by distros having a kernel > not running at the default load address is starting to become common. > > The goal of this patch series is to build kernels that are relocatable > at run time, and to extend the bzImage format to make it capable of > expressing a relocatable kernel.
Nice work. I'd really like to see support for relocatable kernels in mainline (and kexec-tools!). Eric, could you please list the advantages of your run-time relocation code over my incomplete relocate-in-userspace prototype posted to fastboot a few weeks ago? One thing I know for sure is that your implementation supports bzImage while my only supports relocation of vmlinux files. Are there any other uses for relocatable bzImage except kdump? Thanks! / magnus _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
