Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 32/33] x86_64: Relocatable kernel support | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 20:25:08 -0600 |
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> writes: >> >> When loaded with a normal bootloader the decompressor will decompress >> the kernel to 2M and it will run there. This both ensures the >> relocation code is always working, and makes it easier to use 2M >> pages for the kernel and the cpu. > > It would have been nicer if you had moved the uncompressor to be 64bit > first like it was planned for a long time.
Sorry. I wasn't really in those discussions.
I guess I could take this in some slightly smaller steps. But this does wind up with decompressor being 64bit code.
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