Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86: CONFIG_EFI should select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:32:44 -0400 |
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EFI doesn't provide any guarantees that any given address will be free, so the bootloader must have the freedom to position the kernel appropriately. Make CONFIG_EFI select CONFIG_RELOCATABLE in order to ensure that this constraint is satisfiable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index da34972..580cd31 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1454,6 +1454,7 @@ config ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED config EFI bool "EFI runtime service support" depends on ACPI + select RELOCATABLE ---help--- This enables the kernel to use EFI runtime services that are available (such as the EFI variable services). -- 1.7.5.2
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