From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] load_elf: replace the address addend by a translation function
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:13:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100314231347.GI2381@hall.aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003142255.48323.paul@codesourcery.com>
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:55:48PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > 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.
>
Yes, this is the problem. But the way to workaround it is to get rid of
the MSB.
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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
2010-03-14 23:13 ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
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