Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751069AbWHBC0Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:26:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751072AbWHBC0Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:26:25 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:53916 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751068AbWHBC0Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 22:26:24 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andi Kleen 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> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:25:08 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Andi Kleen's message of "01 Aug 2006 21:11:38 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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: 869 Lines: 23 Andi Kleen writes: > "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. Sorry. I wasn't really in those discussions. I guess I could take this in some slightly smaller steps. But this does wind up with decompressor being 64bit code. Eric - 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/