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Re: kernel



On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 02:16:43PM +0530, Rakesh Agarwal wrote:

> Can anyone tell where in the memory ( physical address ) does the
> kernel lies and what is the size of the 2.2 kernel

kernel gets loaded at 1M and virtual 0xc0010000 + X gets translated
to 1M + X physical.

The size of the kernel depends on how you've compiled it. You can
do objdump -h vmlinux and sum up the sizes of the text+data+bss
to get an idea.

	-Arun

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