Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order

[Rene Herman]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rene Herman wrote:

> > Okay. I suppose the only other option is to make "physical_start" a variable
> > passed in by the bootloader so that it could make a runtime decision? Ie,
> > place us at min(top_of_mem, 4G) if it cared to. I just grepped for
> > PHYSICAL_START and this didn't look _too_ bad.
>
> No can do. You'd have to make the kernel relocatable, and do load-time 
> fixups. Very invasive.

Yes, that wasn't too smart. I believe in principe most of it _could_ be 
done via some pagetable trickery though, with the kernel still at a 
fixed virtual address?

Rene.
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