From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]x86_64: build and use GDT on copied compressed kernel
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:49:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1646wpkr5.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440705131101r5b32e0b9j28e2248813b25b64@mail.gmail.com> (Yinghai Lu's message of "Sun, 13 May 2007 11:01:33 -0700")
"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
> Eric,
>
> I got one question about kexec and bzImage on 64bit kernel.
>
> The bzImage for 64bit kernel must be loaded under 4G?
> but vmlinux for 64bit kernel could be loaded above 4G.
>
> So is there any plan to use 64bit entry point (startup_64) in
> arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/vmlinux in bzImage? so you may
> load bzImage above 4G too.
We have big boot protocol revision coming up to more clearly document
what is needed to work with the native entry points. It is a 2.6.23
targeted thing and that is one of the things that we are likely to
look at.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-13 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-13 5:33 [PATCH]x86_64: build and use GDT on copied compressed kernel Yinghai Lu
2007-05-13 5:52 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-13 6:41 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-13 6:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-13 6:29 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-13 6:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-13 6:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-13 7:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-13 7:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-13 18:01 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-13 19:49 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-05-13 21:06 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-13 21:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-14 17:26 ` [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' Yinghai Lu
2007-05-14 17:54 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-14 17:57 ` [PATCH] serial: set RTS and DTR if flow is 'r' --- resend Yinghai Lu
2007-05-14 18:10 ` Russell King
2007-05-14 19:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-14 19:19 ` Russell King
2007-05-14 19:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-14 19:50 ` Russell King
2007-05-14 20:04 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-05-15 20:48 ` [PATCH] serial: set DTR in uart for kernel serial console Yinghai Lu
2007-05-22 19:31 ` PATCH] serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250 Yinghai Lu
2007-05-28 10:51 ` Russell King
2007-05-28 17:50 ` Yinghai Lu
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