[PATCH 1/3] [powerpc32] Process dynamic relocations for kernel

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Oct 11 02:15:06 EST 2011


On 10/10/2011 04:55 AM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> The following patch implements the dynamic relocation processing for
> PPC32 kernel. relocate() accepts the target virtual address and relocates
>  the kernel image to the same.

How much overhead is involved in a true relocatable kernel?  Is it worth
preserving the old "relocatable" booke behavior under a different name?

-Scott



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