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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-12-07 02:14:04 +0100
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2006-12-07 02:14:04 +0100
commit968de4f02621db35b8ae5239c8cfc6664fb872d8 (patch)
tree9388da7f18f9511e1bbfeaf934cba8dbc696e9f4 /arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
parentfd593d12770d4a0d1ff095d44b96436c18479ee8 (diff)
downloadlinux-968de4f02621db35b8ae5239c8cfc6664fb872d8.tar.gz
[PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel support
This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below 1G. The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable. For the main kernel relocations are generated. Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code. A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
index 1ed9d791f8638..707a88f7f29eb 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
SECTIONS
{
- .data : {
+ .data.compressed : {
input_len = .;
LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .;
*(.data)
+ output_len = . - 4;
input_data_end = .;
}
}