From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrei Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Typo in arch/ppc/kernel/head.S?
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:43:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134780206.6102.18.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61AB94A8-8912-4699-A32A-70AC1155BA34@dataarmor.net>
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 01:35 -0600, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I was looking at head.S under arch/ppc/kernel and it seems the
> comment above ".globl __start" is slightly off. Under
> the PMAC section it mentions that .text/.data/.bss are loaded @ 0x0,
> while they could be pretty much loaded anywhere but 0x0, with OF
> exception vectors being there. Am I understanding this correctly?
The comment is pre-historical :) The zImage used to put the kernel at 0
and BootX puts it there too, but the former has been changed. The kernel
can indeed be loaded pretty much anywhere.
Ben.
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2005-12-16 7:35 Typo in arch/ppc/kernel/head.S? Andrei Warkentin
2005-12-17 0:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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