From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from m2hub.mail.wipro.com (m2hub.wipro.com [164.164.27.50]) by wiprom2mx1.wipro.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07501 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:24:01 GMT Received: from m2vwall2.wipro.com ([164.164.27.52]) by m2hub.mail.wipro.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDBK7N00.762 for ; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:10:35 +0530 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:19:54 +0530 (IST) From: Kunaal Mahanti Subject: Re: kernel position In-Reply-To: <20010514092219.55514.qmail@web13202.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Any Anderson Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. - Kunaal Mahanti Senior Software Engineer, IBM NUMA-Q IDC, Wipro Technologies. Ph : +91-80-5732293/96 Ext: 5242 Fax: +91-80-5732296 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit us at http://www.wipro.com/ and http://www.wiproindia.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/