| From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] [RFC] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages | Date | Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:00:12 -0600 |
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Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
>> >> 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?
That patch should still apply and work as described.
Actually when this stuipd cold I have stops slowing me down, and I fix the alignment to what it really needs to be ~= 8KB.
Then bootloaders should be able to make the decision.
HPA Does that sound at all interesting?
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