From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] arm: remove the hack for loading vmlinux images
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:51:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F60783E.4070401@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331720231.23971.370.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On 14/03/12 10:17, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 16:54 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
>> From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
>>
>> Don't adjust the RAM location/size when loading an ELF for dom0. It
>> was vmlinux specific and no longer needed because Linux can be loaded
>> from a zImage.
>
> I'm a bit confused, aren't kernel_try_zimage_prepare and
> kernel_try_elf_prepare two different methods for loading the kernel? If
> the adjustment is needed for vmlinux how does the fact that you could
> load via zImage allow you to remove that adjustment in the vmlinux case?
>
> Could we consider removing support for loading an ELF file entirely?
I left the ELF support in case we need to load some other (non-vmlinux)
ELF image.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 16:54 [PATCH 0/8] arm: pass a device tree to dom0 David Vrabel
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 1/8] arm: add generated files to .gitignore and .hgignore David Vrabel
2012-03-14 9:53 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 2/8] device tree: correctly ignore unit-address when matching nodes by name David Vrabel
2012-03-14 10:00 ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-14 10:48 ` David Vrabel
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 3/8] device tree: add device_tree_for_each_node() David Vrabel
2012-03-14 10:08 ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-14 11:01 ` David Vrabel
2012-03-14 11:09 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 4/8] device tree: add device_tree_dump() to print a flat device tree David Vrabel
2012-03-14 10:11 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 5/8] arm: remove the hack for loading vmlinux images David Vrabel
2012-03-14 10:17 ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-14 10:51 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 6/8] device tree, arm: supply a flat device tree to dom0 David Vrabel
2012-03-14 10:44 ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-14 11:17 ` David Vrabel
2012-03-14 13:00 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 7/8] arm: use bootargs for the command line David Vrabel
2012-03-14 10:46 ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-14 11:26 ` David Vrabel
2012-02-28 16:54 ` [PATCH 8/8] arm: add dom0_mem command line argument David Vrabel
2012-03-14 10:48 ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-14 11:27 ` David Vrabel
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