From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:42:22 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: Khai Trinh Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Where to place the text section of the kernel image Message-ID: <20020529174222.A4363@home.com> References: <20020529223118.11673.qmail@web11504.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20020529223118.11673.qmail@web11504.mail.yahoo.com>; from kqtrinh@yahoo.com on Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:31:18PM -0700 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:31:18PM -0700, Khai Trinh wrote: > > I am building the ppc kernel image for Ebony. I would > like to find out how one goes about deciding where the > place the text section of the kernel image in memory? > The output of the built had it put @0x800000. I looked > in the Makefile but couldn't find where it's > specified. More importantly, how do we decide where to > put it? The output of the makefile is shown below: If you put the zImage at anything less than 0x800000 then the bootloader has to do the extra work of relocating the bootloader and image. The simplest approach is to simply load it at 0x800000 so it can simply uncompress the vmlinux.gz and vector to the kernel. Regards, -- Matt Porter porter@cox.net This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/