From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A65EA68.F75481A2@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:54:32 -0500 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borlizzi Giacomo CC: "linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org" Subject: Re: KERNELBASE and MMU References: <3A648564.671DDDD5@tei.ericsson.se> <3A64C847.D2414D1D@mvista.com> <3A65E51B.50FC28EC@tei.ericsson.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/