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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Query about initramfs and modules
Date: 16 Jan 2002 10:13:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a24ft3$4au$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15428.47094.435181.278715@irving.iisd.sra.com> <a22nc0$2fh$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <15429.48638.96256.842851@irving.iisd.sra.com>

Followup to:  <15429.48638.96256.842851@irving.iisd.sra.com>
By author:    David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Agreed.  However, this work could easily be performed by an insmod
> variant that takes a module, a "System.map", and a kernel image, and
> produces a cpio file as output instead of passing the data to the
> kernel for immediate processing.  The kernel mechanism would then only
> need to unpack the pieces, relocate, and make the system calls.
> 

How do you know where the running kernel will be allocating address
space for the module?

	-hpa
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-16 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-15 23:15 Query about initramfs and modules David Garfield
2002-01-15 23:34 ` Greg KH
2002-01-15 23:47   ` David Garfield
2002-01-16  0:01     ` Greg KH
2002-01-16  0:33       ` David Garfield
2002-01-16  1:16         ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 19:29       ` Andreas Ferber
2002-01-16 19:40         ` Greg KH
2002-01-16 19:53           ` Jordan Crouse
2002-01-16  2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 17:53   ` David Garfield
2002-01-16 18:13     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-01-16 19:04       ` David Garfield
2002-01-16  3:29 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-16 19:41   ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-16 19:56     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 20:18       ` Erik Andersen
2002-01-16 20:23         ` H. Peter Anvin

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