RE: [Linux-ia64] ia64 compressed makefile target

David Mosberger
2002-10-23T19:01:29Z

>>>>> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:46:32 -0700, "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> said:

Tony> Or perhaps David will take the CONFIG_IA64_VMAP_KERNEL patch
Tony> that I posted a week ago which also allows the kernel to run
Tony> on systems without memory at the default link address.
Tony> Admittedly it's more than one line, but it contains much of
Tony> the same infrastructure that is needed to support kernel text
Tony> replication.

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?

--david