On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:37:32 +0800 "tiejun.chen" <tiejun.c...@windriver.com> wrote:
> 1> can you load the Linux vmlinux directly to the physical address '0' on > current bootloader? That depends on what bootloader we're talking about -- I don't know what the original poster's custom loader can do. Obviously the bootloader itself would have to be executing from some other address (e.g. U-Boot runs from the top of RAM). > 2> additionally you have to find a way to pass dtb to the native vmlinux. Yes, of course. But that's a different issue. :-) > I believe the hypervisor can boot vmlinux directly. But your so-called vmlinux > should be guest OS. And the hypervisor will handle/assit TLB exception for the > guest OS on MMU. Right? So you can use the hypervisor to load vmlinux to any > physical address as you expect. I was just using our hypervisor as an example, since it has an ELF loader that can pass a device tree. > But the guest OS should not be same as the native Linux. The guest OS *is* the same as native Linux, as far as TLB handling is concerned. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
