On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Eric W. Biederman > <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote: >>> >>> so we should two purgatory for x86_64 ? >>> like one for 64bit and one for 32bit/16bit >> >> The problem is that the current 32bit assembly code is not possition >> independent. If we can rewrite that assembly code to be position >> independent no relocs will be generated and we should be good. >> >> The 16bit entry point code was already written as position independent >> code so it should not cause problems. >> >> Just having one piece of code to deal with (if we can figure it out) >> looks to be the simpler and more maintainable solution. > > sure. just resent -v2 patches for kernel parts. attached are changes for kexec-tools without put 64 bit purgartory above 4g... hope you can work out 32bit position independent. Thanks Yinghai -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: patches.kexec_2012_11_17.tar.bz2 Type: application/x-bzip2 Size: 8179 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/attachments/20121117/b379af78/attachment.bz2>
