Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header. | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:17:07 +0200 |
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On Monday 30 April 2007 17:12:39 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable > we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. So this patch adds a small > c program to do what we cannot do with a linker script set the elf header > type to ET_DYN. > > Since last time I have fixed the type to be in my code ET_DYN (oops), > and verified this works with kexec. I realized while testing that we > don't have anyway of identifying a kernel vmlinux as linux so we > probably want to add an ELF note but that will be another patch.
The patch is ok for me, but does it pass Vivek's usual testing?
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