Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932126AbWBWXUL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:20:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932125AbWBWXUL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:20:11 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:23009 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932124AbWBWXUJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:20:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:19:54 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Rene Herman cc: Arjan van de Ven , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order In-Reply-To: <43FE1764.6000300@keyaccess.nl> Message-ID: References: <1140700758.4672.51.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1140707358.4672.67.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <200602231700.36333.ak@suse.de> <1140713001.4672.73.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <43FE0B9A.40209@keyaccess.nl> <43FE1764.6000300@keyaccess.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 770 Lines: 21 On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rene Herman wrote: > > Okay. I suppose the only other option is to make "physical_start" a variable > passed in by the bootloader so that it could make a runtime decision? Ie, > place us at min(top_of_mem, 4G) if it cared to. I just grepped for > PHYSICAL_START and this didn't look _too_ bad. No can do. You'd have to make the kernel relocatable, and do load-time fixups. Very invasive. It's certainly _possible_, but it's a whole new stage in the boot, one that we've never done before. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/