From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: fastboot@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Horms <horms@verge.net.au>, Jan Kratochvil <lace@jankratochvil.net>,
       "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
       Linda Wang <lwang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages
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Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:40:58 -0600
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	"Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:40:23 -0400")
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:58:49AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> 
>> Currently there are 33 patches in my tree to do this.
>> 
>> The weirdest symptom I have had so far is that page faults did not
>> trigger the early exception handler on x86_64 (instead I got a reboot).
>> 
>> There is one outstanding issue where I am probably requiring too much
> alignment
>> on the arch/i386 kernel.  
>> 
>> Can anyone find anything else?
>>
>
> I am running into compilation failure on x86_64.

I'm not quite certain what is wrong, except that you haven't
applied all of my patches.

The x86_64 ones do depend on the i386 ones to some extent.
That is why it was one giant patchset.

Eric
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