[PATCH 2/4] x86 boot: Optimize the elf header handling.

2012-07-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Create a space for the elf headers at the begginng of the kernels image in memory. - Rework arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S so that we allow room for the ELF header in the loaded image. This removes the need in the ELF executalbe to insert padding between the ELf headers and the data of the

[PATCH 2/4] x86 boot: Optimize the elf header handling.

2012-07-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Create a space for the elf headers at the begginng of the kernels image in memory. - Rework arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S so that we allow room for the ELF header in the loaded image. This removes the need in the ELF executalbe to insert padding between the ELf headers and the data of the