KERNELBASE and MMU

Dan Malek dan at mvista.com
Thu Jan 18 05:54:32 EST 2001


Borlizzi Giacomo wrote:
>
> Does you say that linux code is not PIC? (position indipendent code)

No it is not.  You can move it around a little if you _really_
understand the details.  For any PowerPC processor there is no
reason to change the location regardless of the system implementation.

> Why such constraint on physical memory area? It don't make some
> limitation on portability of code?

No portability problem.  This code runs on more processors and
boards more easily than anything else in the world.


	-- Dan

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