On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
>
> is the bootup code freed after the kernel has booted ?
> (i know there's a message "freeing unused kernel memory")
no, it is not freed, it is overwritten.
>
> what's about the driver initilaization code ?
> is it also freed ?
yes, it is freed and the way it is done is by using gcc magic
function attributes that instruct the linker to place certain
data and code in certain ELF sections. Look at arch/i386/vmlinux.lds
and also at the definition of __init and __initdata macros.
Regards,
Tigran
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