[PATCH] remove check for ELF offset in powerpc bootimage

[Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>]

Is this check really needed, are there PT_LOAD sections with offset
zero (either zImage or vmlinux)? I see an offset which is always 64k.




Do not check for offset, it is always set.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>

 arch/powerpc/boot/main.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1-olh/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16-rc1-olh.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-olh/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static int is_elf64(void *hdr)
 	elf64ph = (Elf64_Phdr *)((unsigned long)elf64 +
 				 (unsigned long)elf64->e_phoff);
 	for (i = 0; i < (unsigned int)elf64->e_phnum; i++, elf64ph++)
-		if (elf64ph->p_type == PT_LOAD && elf64ph->p_offset != 0)
+		if (elf64ph->p_type == PT_LOAD)
 			break;
 	if (i >= (unsigned int)elf64->e_phnum)
 		return 0;
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ static int is_elf32(void *hdr)
 	elf32 = (Elf32_Ehdr *)elfheader;
 	elf32ph = (Elf32_Phdr *) ((unsigned long)elf32 + elf32->e_phoff);
 	for (i = 0; i < elf32->e_phnum; i++, elf32ph++)
-		if (elf32ph->p_type == PT_LOAD && elf32ph->p_offset != 0)
+		if (elf32ph->p_type == PT_LOAD)
 			break;
 	if (i >= elf32->e_phnum)
 		return 0;
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