From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:49:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] ia64 compressed makefile target Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:01:29PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > I don't have a strong preference either way, but I do have some > concerns about the VMAP_KERNEL. I really dislike the fact that it > requires different versions of virtual-to-physical translations for > kernel addresses. No other platform does that, so it will be a source > of continual worry. Jesse, could you describe your approach a little > more? I assume you link the kernel with "ld -r" and have an elilo > that applies the relocations? Elilo 3.1 supports relocation, but now that I look, we're not passing -r to ld when the kernel is linked, which makes me wonder why it works at all. But I've confirmed that a kernel stripped with --strip-all doesn't boot, while the same binary stripped with --strip-debug does (haven't tried --strip-unneeded, but that should work too). I can look into it more if you're not comfortable with the change, and maybe Tony has something to add? Thanks, Jesse