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From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
To: Borlizzi Giacomo <giacomo.borlizzi@tei.ericsson.se>
Cc: "linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org"
	<linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: KERNELBASE and MMU
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:54:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A65EA68.F75481A2@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A65E51B.50FC28EC@tei.ericsson.se


Borlizzi Giacomo wrote:
>
> Does you say that linux code is not PIC? (position indipendent code)

No it is not.  You can move it around a little if you _really_
understand the details.  For any PowerPC processor there is no
reason to change the location regardless of the system implementation.

> Why such constraint on physical memory area? It don't make some
> limitation on portability of code?

No portability problem.  This code runs on more processors and
boards more easily than anything else in the world.


	-- Dan

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-01-17 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-16 17:31 KERNELBASE and MMU Borlizzi Giacomo
2001-01-16 22:16 ` Dan Malek
2001-01-17 18:31   ` Borlizzi Giacomo
2001-01-17 18:54     ` Dan Malek [this message]

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