From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>,
Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Horms <horms@verge.net.au>,
Kexec Mailing List <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:17:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704301717.08230.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1slah6gm0.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Monday 30 April 2007 17:12:39 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable
> we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. So this patch adds a small
> c program to do what we cannot do with a linker script set the elf header
> type to ET_DYN.
>
> Since last time I have fixed the type to be in my code ET_DYN (oops),
> and verified this works with kexec. I realized while testing that we
> don't have anyway of identifying a kernel vmlinux as linux so we
> probably want to add an ELF note but that will be another patch.
The patch is ok for me, but does it pass Vivek's usual testing?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-30 15:12 [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 15:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-05-01 3:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-01 4:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 5:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-01 5:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 6:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 5:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 6:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-28 10:54 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-05-28 11:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-28 14:39 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-06-01 12:26 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-05-28 14:57 ` Andi Kleen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-31 7:53 2.6.21-rc5-mm3 - no boot, "address not 2M aligned" Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 5:29 ` thunder7
2007-04-01 6:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-01 6:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-02 7:41 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-04-02 8:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-02 9:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-04-02 17:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-03 4:01 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-04-03 5:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-03 10:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-04-23 5:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-24 6:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-04-24 7:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
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