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[Xen-devel] Why Xen use mkelf32 instead of lds?

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  • From: 焦冶 <uframer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:22:02 +0800
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Hi,Guys!
  I read the xen source and find that xen.lds locates the xen binary image
at 0xFC500000, and then mkelf32(generated from mkelf32.c) to relocated it at
0x100000. And my question is WHY? Why doesn't xen.lds directly locate xen
image at 0x100000? Is there any reason?


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