Re: kernel position

[Kunaal Mahanti <kunaal.mahanti@wipro.com>]

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Any Anderson wrote:

Hi,
> I wann know where in the physical memory is kernel
> loaded by the loader (such as lilo) and does this
> position has any significance in mm system. If that

The kernel is loaded loaded beyond 0x1000000 (1MB), this is a h/w
constraint as most DMA devices cannot address beyond that, so we leave if
free, although there should'nt be any problem using a lower address for
kernel.

> location is to be changed which files should be
> changed. Lets assume we are talking for x86 platform.
> Thanks in advance for your time.

I think all we need is to use -Ttext flag while loading the kernel to
modify the load address. If I am correct the other things will fall in
place. mem_init() will take care of marking the remaining memory as
dynamic.
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Kunaal Mahanti
Senior Software Engineer,
IBM NUMA-Q IDC,
Wipro Technologies.
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