Re: Change of TEXT_OFFSET for multi_v7_defconfig

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:36:11PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 16 April 2014 22:08, Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > On 04/16/2014 03:14 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >> But both QEMU and the boot-wrapper should deal with zImage. That's the
> >> only image format with documented load offset is guaranteed not to
> >> change i.e. it can be loaded at about any offset as zImage knows how to
> >> relocate itself as needed.  There is nowhere a guarantee that
> >> TEXT_OFFSET can't change.
> >
> > QEMU definitely does support zImage and I believe it's promoted as the main
> > boot method.
> 
> Yes; we also support uImage. The code nominally handling Image
> actually currently loads at 0x10000, so the set of people who actually
> try to use it is obviously not very large :-)

For ARM, that means precisely zero users without modification of that.
We've never supported an offset of 0x10000 in mainline kernels.

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