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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: x86@kernel.org
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pjones@redhat.com,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
Date: Thu,  9 Jun 2011 10:32:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1307629964-31658-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> (raw)

EFI doesn't provide any guarantees that any given address will be free,
so the bootloader must have the freedom to position the kernel
appropriately. Make CONFIG_EFI select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE in order to
ensure that this constraint is satisfiable.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index da34972..580cd31 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1454,6 +1454,7 @@ config ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED
 config EFI
 	bool "EFI runtime service support"
 	depends on ACPI
+	select RELOCATABLE
 	---help---
 	  This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are
 	  available (such as the EFI variable services).
-- 
1.7.5.2


             reply	other threads:[~2011-06-09 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-09 14:32 Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-06-09 14:34 ` [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE Peter Jones
2011-06-09 14:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-09 14:41   ` Peter Jones
2011-06-09 15:23     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-09 15:35       ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-09 14:47   ` Matthew Garrett

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