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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

  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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