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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Query about initramfs and modules
Date: 16 Jan 2002 10:13:55 -0800
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Followup to:  <15429.48638.96256.842851@irving.iisd.sra.com>
By author:    David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Agreed.  However, this work could easily be performed by an insmod
> variant that takes a module, a "System.map", and a kernel image, and
> produces a cpio file as output instead of passing the data to the
> kernel for immediate processing.  The kernel mechanism would then only
> need to unpack the pieces, relocate, and make the system calls.
> 

How do you know where the running kernel will be allocating address
space for the module?

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