linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

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Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:17:07 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jurriaan <thunder7@...all.nl>,
	Helge Hafting <helgehaf@...el.hist.no>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

On Monday 30 April 2007 17:12:39 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable
> we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START.  So this patch adds a small
> c program to do what we cannot do with a linker script set the elf header
> type to ET_DYN.
> 
> Since last time I have fixed the type to be in my code ET_DYN (oops),
> and verified this works with kexec.  I realized while testing that we
> don't have anyway of identifying a kernel vmlinux as linux so we
> probably want to add an ELF note but that will be another patch.

The patch is ok for me, but does it pass Vivek's usual testing?

-Andi
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