[Xen-devel] Are linker scripts needed?

[Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>]

In alt.bk.changesets.1.1508 Keir wrote:

> Some more ioemu config hardcoding. Our 'target arch' is always i386.
> Do we really need linker scripts??
> Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Yes, we do need linker scripts to support VMX guests with large memory 
(> 256MB). Without the linker scripts, we found instabilities with a 
512MB guest.
The reason for this is, qemu is mapping all of guest physical in it's 
address space. The linker script moves all of the qemu text/data/stack 
to the upper part of the user virtual to leave a large enough hole for 
mapping guest physical using xc_map_foreign.
Our intention is to use qemu for i386, x86-64 and ia64. The 
"target-i386-dm" is a misnomer and inherited from upstream. I should 
probably kill the concept of a "target architecture" since ioemu is cpu 
architecture independent right now.
        -Arun


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