From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:47:33 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: [PATCH] head.S fix for unusual load addrs 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 Fri, 16 May 2003 15:33:30 -0700, "Luck, Tony" said: Tony> Here's a first crack at the missing fs/proc/kcore.c part of Tony> relocating the kernel. Tony> Not as pretty as I'd hoped ... just having your kernel at a Tony> lower address than your modules isn't sufficient to fit with Tony> what the code currently does (which is to assume that your Tony> kernel is in the 1-1 area above PAGE_OFFSET). Tony> Perhaps it might be cleaner to add the kernel to the vmlist Tony> (as somebody suggested before)? That would get rid of almost Tony> all the changes except one ... we'd still need to set Tony> KCORE_BASE to the start address of region 5, so any Tony> suggestions on how to do that in a cleaner way than #ifdef Tony> CONFIG_IA64 gratefully accepted. Well, the patch looks fine to me, so I'm probably the wrong person to ask. Might be good to bring this up on linux-kernel. Was there a particular reason to send the full file instead of just a diff? Also, your file seems to revert the ANSI 99 initializer changes for no good reason. --david