This patch modifies the i386 kernel so that if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is
selected it will be able to be loaded at any 4K aligned address below
1G.  The technique used is to compile the decompressor with -fPIC and
modify it so the decompressor is fully relocatable.  For the main
kernel relocations are generated.  Resulting in a kernel that is relocatable
with no runtime overhead and no need to modify the source code.

A reserved 32bit word in the parameters has been assigned
to serve as a stack so we figure out where are running.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Defining __PHYSICAL_START and __KERNEL_START in asm-i386/page.h works but
it triggers a full kernel rebuild for the silliest of reasons.  This
modifies the users to directly use CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and linux/config.h
which prevents the full rebuild problem, which makes the code much
more maintainer and hopefully user friendly.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Clean up arch/{i386,x86_64}/boot/compressed/misc.c a bit to reduce their
differences. Should have zero effect on code generation.
Signed-off-by: NCarl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This makes it possible for boot code to use screen_info without dragging in
all of tty.h.
Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Remove some of the unnecessary differences between arch/i386 and
arch/x86_64.  This patch fixes more whitespace issues, some miscellaneous
typos, a wrong URL and a factually incorrect statement about the current
boot sector code.
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need
to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory.  To accomplish this
the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses.

This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86 kernel
so we can do just that.  You need to know what you are doing and
the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users
won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED

bzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled
with this option but they will still load at 1MB.  If you need a kernel
loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux.
Signed-off-by: NEric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch removes some completely unused code.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAntonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!