| Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:25:40 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages |
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Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > Can't we use the x86_64 relocation approach for i386 as well? I mean keep > the virtual address space fixed and updating the page tables. This would > help in the sense that you don't have to change gdb if somebody decides to > debug the relocated kernel. > > Any such tool that retrieves the symbol virtual address from vmlinux will > be confused. >
I don't think this is practical given the virtual space constraints on i386 systems.
-hpa
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