Re: [RFC] ELF Relocatable x86 and x86_64 bzImages

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 22:40:18 EST


Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 04:58:49AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> Currently there are 33 patches in my tree to do this.
>>
>> The weirdest symptom I have had so far is that page faults did not
>> trigger the early exception handler on x86_64 (instead I got a reboot).
>>
>> There is one outstanding issue where I am probably requiring too much
> alignment
>> on the arch/i386 kernel.
>>
>> Can anyone find anything else?
>>
>
> I am running into compilation failure on x86_64.

I'm not quite certain what is wrong, except that you haven't
applied all of my patches.

The x86_64 ones do depend on the i386 ones to some extent.
That is why it was one giant patchset.

Eric
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