From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Lindgren Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: allow DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS for omap2plus Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 23:46:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20130731064634.GR7656@atomide.com> References: <1375224558-8170-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org> <20130730225233.GF21614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <51F845C7.8020106@wwwdotorg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:23713 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754838Ab3GaGql (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 02:46:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51F845C7.8020106@wwwdotorg.org> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Warren Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Warren , Shawn Guo * Stephen Warren [130730 16:08]: > On 07/30/2013 04:52 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 04:49:18PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > >> From: Stephen Warren > >> > >> DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS was previously disallowed for omap2plus due to > >> omap2plus.S's use of .data, which is not allowed in the decompressor. > >> Solve this by placing that data into .text when building the file into > >> the decompressor. This relies on .text actually being writable in the > >> decompressor, which it is in practice. > > > > Unless you decide to use ZBOOT and flash the zImage. > > I knew there had to be a catch:-) > > I have no idea if ZBOOT is a use-case that's relevant to OMAP? > > On Tegra at least (the same issue applies to the other patch I just > sent), that use-case is almost impossible; even if the boot ROM directly > booted a kernel, the boot ROM is hard-coded to copy whatever it's > booting to SDRAM first, although I suppose if that was a boot-loader it > could just jump back to a ROM location. That said, NOR flash is > extremely rare on Tegra. So, I don't know if we care about this issue. > > Is it reasonable to just say "If you use ZBOOT, don't enable > DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS"? Perhaps these patches should not completely remove > the !DEBUG_TEGRA_UART from config DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS, but instead say: > > default y if DEBUG_LL && (!DEBUG_TEGRA_UART || !ZBOOT)? I think we're best off removing the remaining uncompress code configured port detection features as the port properties are now defined in kconfig anyways. That simplifies the code quite a bit. Regards, Tony