From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
patches@x86-64.org, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:38:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4633B0BB.6080600@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1fy6kdzi1.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> The boot protocol change is in 2.6.21 for arch/i386.
>
> HPA looked at it a while ago.
>
> All it does is set a flag that tells a bootloader.
> "Hey. I can run when loaded a non-default address, and this is what
> you have to align me to."
>
> All relocation processing happens in the kernel itself.
>
> So it is all pretty trivial.
>
Indeed. We *did* find some problems with Grub with the early versions,
those were addressed.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-28 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-28 17:58 [PATCH] [0/22] x86 candidate patches for review II: 64bit relocatable kernel Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [1/22] x86_64: dma_ops as const Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [2/22] x86_64: Assembly safe page.h and pgtable.h Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [3/22] x86_64: Kill temp boot pmds Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [4/22] x86_64: Clean up the early boot page table Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [5/22] x86_64: Fix early printk to use standard ISA mapping Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [6/22] x86_64: modify copy_bootdata to use virtual addresses Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [7/22] x86_64: cleanup segments Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [8/22] x86_64: Add EFER to the register set saved by save_processor_state Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [9/22] x86_64: 64bit PIC SMP trampoline Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [10/22] x86_64: Get rid of dead code in suspend resume Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [11/22] x86_64: wakeup.S rename registers to reflect right names Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:58 ` [PATCH] [12/22] x86_64: wakeup.S misc cleanups Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [13/22] x86_64: 64bit ACPI wakeup trampoline Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [14/22] x86_64: Modify discover_ebda to use virtual addresses Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [15/22] x86_64: Remove the identity mapping as early as possible Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [16/22] x86: Move swsusp __pa() dependent code to arch portion Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [17/22] x86_64: do not use virt_to_page on kernel data address Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [18/22] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [19/22] x86_64: Relocatable Kernel Support Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [20/22] x86_64: build-time checking Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 18:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 18:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 20:18 ` [patches] " Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28 20:38 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-28 20:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-29 4:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-04-28 20:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-29 7:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-29 15:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 3:03 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-30 4:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 5:03 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-30 5:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 16:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 16:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 15:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:38 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-01 3:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 3:59 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-01 4:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 4:50 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-01 5:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-01 6:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 5:37 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-01 6:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 7:34 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-01 8:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-30 18:50 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-30 22:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 22:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-30 22:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-30 23:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-30 23:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-01 3:39 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 2:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 9:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-02 15:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-02 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:01 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-02 21:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-02 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 23:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 4:50 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-03 6:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-03 7:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 13:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-03 16:23 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-08 16:41 ` yhlu
2007-05-08 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-08 17:33 ` yhlu
2007-05-08 18:51 ` yhlu
2007-05-08 19:01 ` yhlu
2007-05-08 19:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-08 22:00 ` yhlu
2007-05-08 22:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-08 22:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-08 22:41 ` yhlu
2007-05-08 23:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 1:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-09 2:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 3:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-09 4:52 ` yhlu
2007-05-09 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:48 ` yhlu
2007-05-09 5:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 5:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-09 10:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-09 16:31 ` yhlu
2007-05-09 19:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-10 0:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-09 7:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2007-05-09 11:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-10 0:55 ` yhlu
2007-05-09 2:44 ` yhlu
2007-05-09 3:33 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-09 4:42 ` yhlu
2007-05-09 4:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-08 17:24 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-05-08 17:34 ` yhlu
2007-05-03 2:01 ` Rusty Russell
2007-05-02 21:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-02 21:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-02 21:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-29 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-29 18:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-30 4:41 ` Rusty Russell
2007-04-28 17:59 ` [PATCH] [22/22] x86_64: Move cpu verification code to common file Andi Kleen
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