On 15 August 2017 at 10:20, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Thomas Garnier wrote:
>>
>>> > Do these changes get us closer to being able to build the kernel as truly
>>> > position independent, i.e. to place it anywhere in the valid x86-64
>>>
> How are these assumptions hardcoded by GCC? Most of the instructions
> should be
> relocatable straight away, as most call/jump/branch instructions are
> RIP-relative.
>
> I.e. is there no GCC code generation mode where code can be placed
> anywhere in the
> canonical address space, yet call a
