From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>,
Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>,
fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ebiederm@xmission.com
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH][RFC] x86_64: Reload CS when startup_64 is used.
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:04:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608211704.03061.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060821144657.GE9549@in.ibm.com>
On Monday 21 August 2006 16:46, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:24:10PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > > Given the idea of relocatable kernel is floating around I would prefer if
> > > we are not bounded by the restriction of loading a kernel in lowest 4G.
> >
> > There is already other code that requires this. In fact i don't think it can
> > be above 40MB currently.
> >
>
> But I think Eric's prototype patches for relocatable kernel do get over
> this limitation (Hope I understood the code right). Assuming that relocatable
> kernel patches will be merged down the line, it would be nice not to be
> bound by 4G limitation.
He may have fixed the 40MB issue, but I very much doubt he changed the 2GB
limitation because that would be a major change.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-21 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-21 9:54 [PATCH][RFC] x86_64: Reload CS when startup_64 is used Magnus Damm
2006-08-21 10:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-21 13:29 ` [Fastboot] " Magnus Damm
2006-08-21 14:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 0:47 ` Magnus Damm
2006-08-21 14:17 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-21 14:24 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-21 14:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-08-21 15:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-21 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-21 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-21 21:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-21 21:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-22 0:58 ` Magnus Damm
2006-08-22 3:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-22 4:10 ` Magnus Damm
2006-08-22 8:03 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 8:37 ` [PATCH] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-22 8:53 ` [Fastboot] " Magnus Damm
2006-08-22 9:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-23 3:10 ` Magnus Damm
2006-08-22 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-22 9:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
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