On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:48:25AM +0530, sahlot arvind wrote: > >The vast majority of it probably is, some of it isn't and it'll depend on > >the architecture... > > So isn't there a thick line that this code is PIC and this is not? > What I understand is that on any arch code, which runs before enabling > paging unit must be PIC. Is that correct? Yes, the ARM startup code is PIC. > And one more question - can we load linux image any where in the memory and > run? IIRC it was anywhere but the location where the decompressed image lives, but looking at the code the kernel will move itself out of the way when that happens. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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