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On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:33:44PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:49:58PM -0500, Greg Kritsch wrote:
> > Option 3: have the module loader change the relative branch instruction=
s to
> > absolute branch instructions, in place, since the entire kernel is reac=
hable
> > by an absolute branch instruction.  This would be nicely efficient, too.
>=20
> Hmmmmmm :-)
>=20
> Now, this sounds like a useful idea!

One problem though: this only works for base kernel calls... inter-LKM calls
will still potentially need long branches.

	-is
--=20
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