Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | 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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