[PATCH 4/8] powerpc: add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M

Anton Vorontsov avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Sat Aug 2 06:38:19 EST 2008


On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 01:49:52PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:14:20PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > From: Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org>
> > 
> > Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at an address
> > of 32MB.  This done by fixing a few places that assume we are loaded
> > at address 0, and by changing several uses of KERNELBASE to use
> > PAGE_OFFSET, instead.
> 
> What do you do about the exception vectors?

Making a trampoline code in place of exception vectors. See this patch:

[PATCH 8/8] powerpc: last bits to support kdump on ppc32

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