Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:19:54 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order |
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On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rene Herman wrote: > > Okay. I suppose the only other option is to make "physical_start" a variable > passed in by the bootloader so that it could make a runtime decision? Ie, > place us at min(top_of_mem, 4G) if it cared to. I just grepped for > PHYSICAL_START and this didn't look _too_ bad.
No can do. You'd have to make the kernel relocatable, and do load-time fixups. Very invasive.
It's certainly _possible_, but it's a whole new stage in the boot, one that we've never done before.
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