booting single uImage on platforms with different base addresses for SDRAM

[wd@denx.de (Wolfgang Denk)]

Dear Peter De Schrijver,

In message <20110922110411.GD20444@tbergstrom-lnx.Nvidia.com> you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently uImages have the load address hardcoded. As we now try to support
> as many ARM platforms as possible with a single binary, this becomes a
> problem. On tegra20 SDRAM starts at physical address 0, but on tegra30 SDRAM
> starts at 0x80000000. It's possible to build a kernel image which can deal
> with this, but the uImage still uses a hardcoded address. This results
> in requiring 2 different uImages even though the zImage is the same.
> 
> Has anyone thought of a solution to this problem?

Yes, this has been discussed before.  I proposed to allow for an
offset specification instead of an absolute address.  After that, the
discussions faded.  No code has been submitted yet.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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