From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
<ebiederm@xmission.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Consolidate vmlinux.lds.S files
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:37:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15907.5503.334066.50256@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301131309240.24477-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>
Kai> I would suggest an approach like the following, of course
Kai> showing only a first simple step. A series of steps like this
Kai> should allow for a serious reduction in size of
Kai> arch/*/vmlinux.lds.S already, while being obviously correct and
Kai> allowing archs to do their own special thing if necessary (in
Kai> particular, IA64 seems to differ from all the other archs).
The only real difference for the ia64 vmlinux.lds.S is that it
generates correct physical addressess, so that the boot loader doesn't
have to know anything about the virtual layout of the kernel.
Something that might be useful for other arches as well...
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-12 22:07 Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-12 23:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-12 23:36 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-01-13 18:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-13 19:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-13 22:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-13 19:13 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-13 19:37 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2003-01-13 20:30 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-13 21:17 ` David Mosberger
2003-01-14 1:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-14 2:18 ` PPP problem with >= 2.4.19 JunHyeok Heo
2003-01-14 5:23 ` Steve Lee
2003-01-15 22:42 ` [RFC] Consolidate vmlinux.lds.S files Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-16 0:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-13 22:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-13 23:05 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-01-13 10:19 ` dada1
2003-01-13 18:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-01-13 11:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-01-14 6:27 Mikael Starvik
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