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Old 04-20-2010, 01:00 AM   #1
shankarvk
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relocating the kernel


Hi,

I have 2 questions

1) Sometimes, the kernel is relocated on the target. When is this necessary ?

2) The kernel is linked at the virtual load-address ( eg: 0xC0000000).
Until MMU is enabled, how does the kernel execute ? ( Maybe all accesses have to be pc-relative ).

thanks
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Old 04-21-2010, 10:59 PM   #2
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There's a tremendous amount of material already out there on the Internet regarding the boot-sequence of Linux kernels, which need not be laboriously repeated here. "Google it."
 
  


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