From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] load_elf: replace the address addend by a translation function
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:55:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003142255.48323.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100314221727.GG2381@hall.aurel32.net>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:59:44PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > The patch also convert all machines that have an addend, simplify the
> > > PowerPC kernel loading
> >
> > The new PPC code looks like it may break images > 16M in size.
>
> The idea was to get rid of the most significant byte, as it changes
> depending on the kernel version, while we want the kernel to be loaded
> at a fixed address. Looks like I have to shift the mask by four bits.
I thought that problem was that some kernels are (incorrectly) linked with
LMA==VMA, whereas they should have a base load address of zero.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-14 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-14 20:57 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] load_elf: replace the address addend by a translation function Aurelien Jarno
2010-03-14 21:59 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-14 22:17 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-03-14 22:55 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-03-14 23:13 ` Aurelien Jarno
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