Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751812AbWHATLm (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:11:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751814AbWHATLl (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:11:41 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:682 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751812AbWHATLk (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:11:40 -0400 To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Horms , Jan Kratochvil , "H. Peter Anvin" , Magnus Damm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/33] x86_64: Relocatable kernel support References: <11544302483667-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> From: Andi Kleen Date: 01 Aug 2006 21:11:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <11544302483667-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 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: 661 Lines: 11 "Eric W. Biederman" writes: > > When loaded with a normal bootloader the decompressor will decompress > the kernel to 2M and it will run there. This both ensures the > relocation code is always working, and makes it easier to use 2M > pages for the kernel and the cpu. It would have been nicer if you had moved the uncompressor to be 64bit first like it was planned for a long time. -Andi - 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/