Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:42:00 -0600 (CST) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Consolidate vmlinux.lds.S files |
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, David Mosberger wrote:
> > Kai> I would suggest an approach like the following, of course > Kai> showing only a first simple step. A series of steps like this > Kai> should allow for a serious reduction in size of > Kai> arch/*/vmlinux.lds.S already, while being obviously correct and > Kai> allowing archs to do their own special thing if necessary (in > Kai> particular, IA64 seems to differ from all the other archs). > > The only real difference for the ia64 vmlinux.lds.S is that it > generates correct physical addressess, so that the boot loader doesn't > have to know anything about the virtual layout of the kernel. > Something that might be useful for other arches as well...
I just found another way of changing the LMA in vmlinux, which is far less intrusive than what IA-64 uses. Do you see any reason why something like the following patch (which changes the LMA for i386) wouldn't work for IA-64?
--Kai
===== arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S 1.24 vs edited ===== --- 1.24/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S Wed Jan 15 11:48:42 2003 +++ edited/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S Wed Jan 15 16:36:04 2003 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-i386", "elf32-i386", "elf32-i386") OUTPUT_ARCH(i386) ENTRY(_start) +PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD AT(0x100000) ; } jiffies = jiffies_64; SECTIONS { @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ *(.text) *(.fixup) *(.gnu.warning) - } = 0x9090 + } :kernel = 0x9090 _etext = .; /* End of text section */ - 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/
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