Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> Okay. I suppose the only other option is to make "physical_start" a variable
> passed in by the bootloader so that it could make a runtime decision? Ie,
> place us at min(top_of_mem, 4G) if it cared to. I just grepped for
> PHYSICAL_START and this didn't look _too_ bad.

No can do. You'd have to make the kernel relocatable, and do load-time 
fixups. Very invasive.

It's certainly _possible_, but it's a whole new stage in the boot, one 
that we've never done before.

		Linus
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