[PATCH] i386: Relocatable kernel support

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: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
index 1ed9d791f863..707a88f7f29e 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 SECTIONS
 {
-  .data : { 
+  .data.compressed : {
         input_len = .;
         LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .; 
         *(.data) 
+        output_len = . - 4;
         input_data_end = .; 
         }
 }