On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
> Now I understood how you protect your sacred area ... seems to me that,
> if __va(0x90000) or __va(0x100000) happen to be in your vmalloc'ed
> area, you may corrupt the new kernel.
agreed.
> I find it also a bit unfortunate that your code needs to have a fairly
> good idea of the memory layout of what it's loading, so even the part
> in kernel/sys.c is quite architecture-specific.
yup, needs cleanup. I'll take any good suggestions you have. This is a
first cut and I'm hoping smart people will give me good improvements!
It was quite a bit of fun getting it this far, so I am resting for a bit
before final fixup. So I'm wide open for good ideas. Next try is on the
Alpha.
Thanks for the hint on fstab!
ron
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