Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932128AbWHBSe3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:34:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932137AbWHBSe3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:34:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:9709 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932128AbWHBSe3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:34:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:37:09 -0400 From: Don Zickus To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: fastboot@osdl.org, Horms , Jan Kratochvil , "H. Peter Anvin" , Magnus Damm , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [RFC] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages Message-ID: <20060802183709.GJ3435@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 20 > > There is one outstanding issue where I am probably requiring too much alignment > on the arch/i386 kernel. There was posts awhile ago about optimizing the kernel performance by loading it at a 4MB offset. http://www.lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/23/189 Your changes breaks that on i386 (not aligned on a 4MB boundary). But a 5MB offset works. Is that the correct update or does that break the original idea? Cheers, Don - 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/