1. 06 Dec, 2006 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      [PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel support · 968de4f0
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      
      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: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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