I've been working together with H. Peter Anvin in order replace the ad-hoc real-mode code inside .x86_trampoline section with an encapsulated binary that is fully relocatable to any memory location under 1MB. Everything that is needs to be relocated is relocated during initialization. Benefits: - Simplifies things. Real-mode code does not have to find its own location any more. This makes maintaining and extending this code much nicer experience. - Cleans up code base a lot. Now real-mode code is encapsulated from kernel both in source tree and in vmlinux. - We can set proper permissions to pages of text, data/bss and rodata. Before, .x86_trampoline had just rwx permissions. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
