Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Chris Wright wrote:
>> Change LOAD_OFFSET so that the kernel has virtual addresses in the elf
>> header fields.
>>
>> Unlike bare metal kernels, Xen kernels start with virtual address
>> management turned on and thus the addresses to load to should be
>> virtual addresses.
> 
> This patch interferes with using a traditional bootloader.  The loader
> for Xen should be smarter - it already has VIRT_BASE from the xen_guest
> section, and can simply add the relocation to these header fields.  This
> is unnecessary, and one of the many reasons a Xen kernel can't run in a
> normal environment.

I fully agree.  Attached below is a patch (against xen unstable
mercurial tree) which does exactly that ;)

cheers,

  Gerd

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