From: Andy Gross <agross@codeaurora.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Varadarajan Narayanan <varada@codeaurora.org>,
Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>,
David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@linaro.org>,
Georgi Djakov <gdjakov@mm-sol.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-soc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Set proper TEXT_OFFSET for IPQ806x
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:20:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150820172010.GB10796@qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150820130005.GS7557@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 05:45:41PM +0530, Varadarajan Narayanan wrote:
> > RAM starts at 0x40000000 for IPQ. The lower 21MB of RAM is used
> > for Shared Memory and the kernel can start from 0x41500000.
>
> Why do people keep creating crap like this? Each time something like
> this is created, it means that you _need_ to have a special kernel for
> your platform and you can't be part of the single zImage.
>
> Please, rather than creating crap like this, find a better way.
In the case of the IPQ, we don't use the zImage because the decompress requires
a larger jump than we can do on that platform. Having this change at least gets
us back 2MB of memory.
--
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
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From: agross@codeaurora.org (Andy Gross)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: Set proper TEXT_OFFSET for IPQ806x
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 12:20:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150820172010.GB10796@qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150820130005.GS7557@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 05:45:41PM +0530, Varadarajan Narayanan wrote:
> > RAM starts at 0x40000000 for IPQ. The lower 21MB of RAM is used
> > for Shared Memory and the kernel can start from 0x41500000.
>
> Why do people keep creating crap like this? Each time something like
> this is created, it means that you _need_ to have a special kernel for
> your platform and you can't be part of the single zImage.
>
> Please, rather than creating crap like this, find a better way.
In the case of the IPQ, we don't use the zImage because the decompress requires
a larger jump than we can do on that platform. Having this change at least gets
us back 2MB of memory.
--
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum,
a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-20 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-20 12:15 [PATCH] ARM: Set proper TEXT_OFFSET for IPQ806x Varadarajan Narayanan
2015-08-20 12:15 ` Varadarajan Narayanan
2015-08-20 13:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-20 13:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-20 17:20 ` Andy Gross [this message]
2015-08-20 17:20 ` Andy Gross
2015-08-20 19:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-20 19:54 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-08-21 4:59 ` Varadarajan Narayanan
2015-08-21 4:59 ` Varadarajan Narayanan
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