Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH]x86_64: build and use GDT on copied compressed kernel | Date | Sun, 13 May 2007 13:49:02 -0600 |
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"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> writes:
> Eric, > > I got one question about kexec and bzImage on 64bit kernel. > > The bzImage for 64bit kernel must be loaded under 4G? > but vmlinux for 64bit kernel could be loaded above 4G. > > So is there any plan to use 64bit entry point (startup_64) in > arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/vmlinux in bzImage? so you may > load bzImage above 4G too.
We have big boot protocol revision coming up to more clearly document what is needed to work with the native entry points. It is a 2.6.23 targeted thing and that is one of the things that we are likely to look at.
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