Re: [Fastboot] [RFC] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages

Don Zickus
2006-08-02T18:34:29Z

>
> There is one outstanding issue where I am probably requiring too much alignment
> on the arch/i386 kernel.

There was posts awhile ago about optimizing the kernel performance by
loading it at a 4MB offset.

http://www.lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/23/189

Your changes breaks that on i386 (not aligned on a 4MB boundary). But a
5MB offset works. Is that the correct update or does that break the
original idea?

Cheers,
Don