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

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Wed Aug 20 14:57:46 EST 2008


Anton Vorontsov writes:

> > 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

It would probably be worth looking at whether we could do a
relocatable 32-bit kernel by linking it as a PIE and processing the
dynamic relocations at boot time (like the patches I posted recently
for 64-bit).

Paul.



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