From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: arm64: Document that text_offset is always 0
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:33:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajVTU7OsCInkAzoq@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260604140839.1930847-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 04:08:39PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> When trying to figure out where to place and call an arm64 Image in
> memory, reading booting.rst should provide the answer. However, it
> requires quite some digging to figure out that text_offset is set via
> ".quad 0" in head.S and is thus actually always 0 since v5.10.
>
> Update the documentation and make that explicit. Reword the 2MB
> requirement accordingly, and remove the paragraphs that only apply to
> the ancient versions where text_offset could be non-zero, as they only
> confuse a current reader.
Doesn't this needlessly prevent us from having a non-zero offset in future,
if we wanted that for some reason?
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-19 14:34 UTC|newest]
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2026-06-04 14:08 ` [PATCH] docs: arm64: Document that text_offset is always 0 Rasmus Villemoes
2026-06-18 8:02 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2026-06-19 14:33 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2026-06-19 15:21 ` Mark Rutland
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