From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:06:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172250409.1902.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc45fc62b1568ccaedb712d3a6eb5ca0@kernel.crashing.org>
> If this is an ELF file, you can put the exception vectors in a
> separate segment. Or if you don't need the entry point to
> be in the low region, (and you don't need that unless your
> boot loader ignores the entry point in the ELF header), you can
> copy the vectors in at startup and have no code linked at 0 at
> all.
No you cant. When flashed in ROM, the HV expands the bootloader binary
at 0 and jumps to 0x100
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-23 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-18 1:17 [RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support Geoff Levand
2007-02-18 1:40 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19 15:03 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 19:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 20:40 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 20:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 21:35 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19 21:39 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 21:51 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19 0:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-20 2:25 ` David Gibson
2007-02-20 14:23 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-20 15:44 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-20 16:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-21 0:16 ` David Gibson
2007-02-23 17:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-02-23 17:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-21 0:16 ` David Gibson
2007-02-23 17:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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