Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 May 2006 09:38:40 +0100 | From | Christian Limpach <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 07/35] Make LOAD_OFFSET defined by subarch |
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On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:47:13AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote: > >I've updated our loader to support this now, so that this patch is > >no longer necessary. I have at the same time added a new field to > >xen_guest which allows specifying the entry point, allowing us to have > >a different entry point when running the kernel image on Xen. > > Why do you need a separate entry point here? The code should be able to figure out which mode it is run in without > problems...
I think it's the cleanest way to have different startup code for native and non-native in the same kernel. But even if that's not needed (for Linux), then you can have it point at the same address. It is also always pointing to a virtual address, while the elf header one now points to a physical address which doesn't make much sense in the environment we start the kernel.
christian
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