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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Anton Vorontsov writes:

> > What do you do about the exception vectors?
> 
> Making a trampoline code in place of exception vectors. See this patch:
> 
> [PATCH 8/8] powerpc: last bits to support kdump on ppc32

It would probably be worth looking at whether we could do a
relocatable 32-bit kernel by linking it as a PIE and processing the
dynamic relocations at boot time (like the patches I posted recently
for 64-bit).

Paul.