Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Consolidate vmlinux.lds.S files | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | | Date | 13 Jan 2003 18:54:20 -0700 |
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David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:
> Kai> I would suggest an approach like the following, of course > Kai> showing only a first simple step. A series of steps like this > Kai> should allow for a serious reduction in size of > Kai> arch/*/vmlinux.lds.S already, while being obviously correct and > Kai> allowing archs to do their own special thing if necessary (in > Kai> particular, IA64 seems to differ from all the other archs). > > The only real difference for the ia64 vmlinux.lds.S is that it > generates correct physical addressess, so that the boot loader doesn't > have to know anything about the virtual layout of the kernel. > Something that might be useful for other arches as well...
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Having the physical addresses there makes writing a sane bootloader simpler.
Alpha practically does this except there is a fixed virtual offset added to everything.
In general anything that gives us correct physical addresses makes like much simpler on the bootloader..
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